x-ray

  • Watch A 500,000-Year-Old Mammoth Get Its First X-Ray

    Watch A 500,000-Year-Old Mammoth Get Its First X-Ray

    In this photo, staff members from the Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) and the San Diego Natural History Museum are X-raying a 500,000-year-old mammoth skull fragment in the NMCSD radiology department on Monday. Man, those are some pretty massive teeth.


  • Fish Look Crazy With X-Ray Vision

    Fish Look Crazy With X-Ray Vision

    In a perfect world, anyone who sent in a buck for those novelty x-ray specs advertised in the back of comic books would be gifted with the actual ability to see through solid stuff. In reality, we have to rely on the kindness of folks with real tech for a peek. So: Thanks, Smithsonian!