The beauty of fish bones

The Scientist, July 14, 2010.

Sandwiched between two floors of dead fish at Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences, Kyle Luckenbill is creating art.

As the Academy’s curatorial assistant resident dead fish paparazzo he photographs and x-rays the institution’s 3,000 species-defining specimens as part of a National Science Foundation grant. “We didn’t really plan an exhibit with the project, but it was one of those things where it was sort of a no-brainer,” Luckenbill says. Read More >