WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Every year, the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition shines a light on some of the most impressive and visually stunning images of human, plant and animal subjects captured via light microscopes. This year's winners were unveiled on Tuesday, and 2014's crop of images captured a captivating array of tiny moments -- moments normally hidden from the human eye.
Included among the top ten are a variety of awe-inspiring biological processes, including the development of a fruit fly, rapidly firing neurons inside zebrafish's brain, the oral appendages of a barnacle, and more.