Life Magnified Stamps

With 20 otherworldly images, this issuance explores life on Earth, as few have ever seen it. The pane features images taken usingmicroscopes and highly specialized photographic techniques to capture details of ife undetectable by the human eye.The stamps include vivid images of red blood cells, the feather of a macaw parrot, a knotted strand of human hair, moss leavesdiatom shells (photosynthesizing algael, freshwater protozoans, an acorn barmacle, a moth's antenna, the front foot of a divingbeetle, neurons from a mouse's brain, bone tissue from a staring, scales on the wing of a Madagascan sunset moth, a juvenilezebrafish, mushroom gills, the tongue of a freshwater snai, a blue button (an organism similar to a jellvfish), mold spores, the legs(known as cirri) of a barnacle, flame lily pollen, and the surface of a southern live oak leaf.