Wing walker Todd Green falls to his death after losing his grip performing a stunt during an air show at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Mich., on Aug 21.
A technician inspects a plaster model created for use in traveling health exhibits of body organs in 1955. The head was manufactured at the German Health Museum near Cologne, Germany.
A pair of 90-day-old cow fetuses are clearly visible inside the amniotic sac in this beautifully eerie photo from 1965. The micrometer at the shriveled end of the sac measures a lump that contains a dead fetus. (For a better sense of the scale of the sac, notice the fingers holding the micrometer at the top.)
Pandas eat at China’s Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Sichuan Province. The pandas, named Hao Hao, Yun Yun, Jin Ke, Yin Ke, Bo Si, and Shen Wei, will be moved to Guangzhou for the Asian Games, which kick off Nov. 11.
A wave crashes over Lake Michigan’s 57-foot-tall Ludington Lighthouse. Wind gusts of more than 80 miles an hour wreaked havoc elsewhere as major storms roared across the Midwest and South.
