Sharks possess a skeleton that is made almost entirely of cartilage. Clearing the tissue and staining the remaining cartilage reveals forms of increasingly delicate intricacy.
MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
Shark Fin Blues by Andrew Gillis
Winner of the Graduate School of Life Sciences Image Competition 2010
![](mailto:?subject=Pavilion: Issue 18&body=http://bluesci.soc.srcf.net/posts/pavilion-issue-18 <div class='caption'><div id="attachment_4086" align="aligncenter" width="674" caption="Shark Fin Blues"><a href="https://bluesci.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BambooFin-copy.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-4086 " title="Image: Andrew Gillis" src="https://bluesci.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BambooFin-copy-674x1024.jpg" alt="" width="674" height="1024" /></a></div></div><em>Shark Fin Blues</em> by Andrew Gillis<br><br>Winner of the Graduate School of Life Sciences Image Competition 2010){kind=link}
