Galleries / The Species That Put the "Danger" in "Endangered"

The names look like alphabet soup—CT, MRI, DTI—but the images look like science melding into art.

From Burmese pythons to Galapagos goats, these animals are threatening a hostile takeover—unless we can stop them.

The recent imaging of two 300-million-year-old proto-spiders was just the tip of the iceberg: Here are 12 new scanning technologies that are bringing amazing 3-D images into Hollywood, medical care—and home PCs.