Terrifying close-up of an ant's face gives horror movie monsters a run for their money
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Nikon's 48th annual Small World Photomicrography Competition featured amazing microscopic photography, including a zoomed-in shot of an ant's face — and it has the internet freaking out.
The tight shot of the tiny insect, captured by Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas of Taurage, Lithuania, shows the ant’s beady red eyes, angry expression and what appears to be long, sharp teeth. Long-bodied cellar/daddy long-legs spider (Pholcus phalangioides) as captured by Dr. Andrew Posselt of University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). This was the fourth place winner of Nikon's 48th annual Small World Competition. (Nikon Small World/Andrew Posselt) A fly under the chin of a tiger beetle, as captured by Murat Öztürk of Ankara, Turkey. Tenth place winner of the 48th annual Nikon Small World Competition. (Nikon Small World/Murat Öztürk) Cross-sections of normal human colon epithelial crypts, as captured by Dr. Ziad El-Zaatari of Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. Fifteenth place winner of the 48th annual Nikon Small World Competition. (Nikon Small World/Ziad El-Zaatari) Angelica Stabile is a lifestyle writer for Fox News Digital.
Kavaliauskas captured this photo of the ant by using reflected light with 5X objective lens magnification, according to the competition.