Honorable Mention: I'm Just Normal

Photo by Gonzalo Illan, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

This is a picture of a Florida pompano born and raised at the FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute aquaculture facilities. It has been treated with a process called clear-stain, which shows the anatomy of the skeleton and helps to study malformations during development. That is why it is called "I'm just normal," because the anatomy of this fish is just beautifully normal. Some of his/her partners in the fish tank are not that lucky, and when this happens too often, we start thinking about in-breeding. After staining, the picture was transformed into a negative.