The best peer-reviewed scientific figure ever

By Alex Wild on April 17, 2012

An actual figure, from an actual research paper:

Source: Meyer-Rochow, V. B., Jozsef Gal. Pressures produced when penguins pooh - calculations on avian defaecation. Polar Biology. 31 October 2003.

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Alex Wild

Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets.