Top Ten Photos of 2007 From National Geographic News

[boston bean]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/photogalleries/topphotos-pictures/index.html

[midlife_mo_Jo]

1. WARNING for those eating breakfast! Human hand in alligator

UGH

Great pics, otherwise! LOL

[zanne]

2. Um...What is sticking out of the gentleman in the hospital bed?

I know it's a body organ(s), but I don't know which one(s).

[Greeby]

4. No idea

But he's the vet who the croc took the hand from.

[Hoof Hearted]

7. It's his hand, seen in the previous photo, in the possession of the croc. n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. That's the hand that they stitched back on

Luckily the croc gave it back.

[Highway61]

9. The hand

that they re-attached with a probe on the finger (oximeter)to measure oxygen saturation in the blood.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. One of those is not a photo...

however, it was one of my favorite science stories for this year. :)

[Hoof Hearted]

5. The croc with the hand looks like a Photoshop! Glad that guy got it back. Holy cow.

"Kaohsiung, Taiwan, April 11, 2007—Armed and dangerous, a Nile crocodile prowls the Kaohsiung, Taiwan, zoo (top) on April 11, 2007. Veterinarian Chang Po-yu was reaching through iron bars to remove tranquilizer darts before treating the 440-pound (200-kilogram) reptile when the inadequately sedated animal bit the vet's forearm off.

But for the vet, it wasn't quite a farewell to arm.

After being shot at twice, but apparently unhit, the croc dropped the arm. After seven hours of surgery, doctors successfully reattached the appendage, shown at bottom on a smiling Chang on April 12. "

[SpiralHawk]

6. I am captioning this photo as...

"Amoral Republicon homelanders do it to America again"