Bizarre X-Ray Images

Once only the stuff of science fiction, X-ray technology today provides images that can shock us as almost as much as they can educate us.

Here’s a look at some startling and interesting images that come from using X-ray technology to peer inside everything from human heads to egg-carrying sea turtles.

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Bizarre X-Ray Im... Once only the stuff of science fiction, X-ray technology today provides images that can shock us as almost as much as they can educate us.
Here’s a look at some startling and interesting images that come from using X-ray technology to peer inside everything from human heads to egg-carrying sea turtles.

(AP Photo)

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Spear Fishing Ac... In this undated image provided by University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital, a spear accidentally shot through Yasser Lopez's skull is seen. Lopez, 16, was in serious condition Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center. Hospital officials say one of Lopez’s friends was loading a spear gun when it accidentally fired. Lopez was taken to the trauma center June 7 with roughly 3 feet of the spear protruding from his forehead, and is lucky to have survived.

(AP Photo/University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital)

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Spear Fishing Ac... Above: A frontal view of the spear that penetrated Yasser Lopez's skull during a fishing trip.

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Hidden Van Gogh This X-ray provided by the Kroeller Mueller Museum shows an underlying image of two wrestlers on a painting entitled "Still life with meadow flowers and roses" by Vincent van Gogh. The Kroeller Mueller Museum said new X-ray research finally put beyond doubt that "Still life with meadow flowers and roses" really is by Van Gogh. It has also uncovered in greater detail an art school study by Van Gogh of two wrestlers concealed on the same canvas and invisible to the naked eye.

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Nail in Brain This photo provided by Christ Medical Center & Hope Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn,, Ill. on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 shows an X-ray of a nail embedded in Dante Autullo's brain. Autullo unknowingly shot a nail into his skull, and posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook during his ambulance ride between hospitals for surgery.

(AP Photo/Christ Medical Center & Hope Children's Hospital)

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Stolen Ring Swal... This photo released by the Cicero Police Department shows an X-ray revealing a diamond ring inside Wilfredo Gonzalez-Cruz, 30, of Chicago, that he allegedly stole from the home of a woman in Cicero, Ill., and then and swallowed. Authorities recovered the ring after waiting for it to complete its journey through his body.

(AP Photo/Cicero Police Department)

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Turtle with Eggs This X-ray image shows a turtle with eggs.

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Civil War Doll This Wednesday Oct. 27, 2010 file photo provided by Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Radiology shows an X-ray image of a Civil War era doll, named Nina. While X-rays revealed that her papier-mache head was in fact hollow, technicians at the state crime lab in Richmond swabbed the inside of Nina's head and found no residue of either quinine, used to treat malaria, or morphine for wounded troops. Nina was given to the Museum of the Confederacy in 1923 by donors who said she had been used to smuggle medicine past Northern blockades to Southern troops.

(AP Photo/Virignia Commonwealth University Department of Radiology, File)

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Man Marvels at W... Edeilson Manoel do Nascimento holds an X-ray showing a knife that was inside his head at the Hospital das Clinicas in Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Nascimento recovered nicely after a team of surgeons removed the 4-inch knife that had remained stuck in his head for three years after a bar fight.

(AP Photo/Helia Scheppa, JC Imagem)

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Bullet Found...F... This X-ray photo released by German police in 2010 shows the skull of a man with a bullet in the back of his head. Police said the man was shot in the back of his head, but that it took him five years to realize it. The 35-year-old man was hit by a .22-caliber bullet in the western town of Herne as he was out in the street partying drunk on New Year's Eve. They say the man recalled receiving a blow to the head, but told them he didn't seek medical assistance at the time.

(AP Photo/Polizei Herne)

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Bionic Ankle This X-Ray image provided by Dr. Steven Haddad shows the artificial ankle of Dan Sivia, of Waukegan, Ill.

(AP Photo/Courtesy of Dr. Steven Haddad)

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Magnetic Toy An undated X-ray shows steel balls and magnets inside of 8-year-old Haley Lents, after the Huntingburg, Ind. child swallowed the pieces from a magnetic toy set.

(AP Photo/The Jaspaar Herald)

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Internal Calls This image provided by the Direction of Penal Centers of El Salvador shows an X-ray taken of one of four prisoners at a maximum security prison. Four cellular telephones were found in the intestines of as many prisoners. The discovery happened after suspicious prison officials took X-rays of each of the prisoners.

(AP Photo/Centros Penales)

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Python Eats Warm... A pre-surgery X-ray of Houdini, a 12-foot Burmese python that swallowed an entire electric blanket - with the electrical cord and control box, is shown in Ketchum, Idaho, Wednesday, July 19, 2006. It took surgery to save the python. This X-ray shows some of the tangle of the blanket's wiring and mechanism in the python.

(AP Photo/Dev Khalsa)

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Strange Airmail In this photo released by Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, a Fea's Viper snake is seen in an X-ray of a package. Dutch customs intercepted the live poisonous snake that was sent by airmail on a flight from Hong Kong to a collector in the Netherlands. The snake is found in the forests of southeast Asia, and known to be highly poisonous but not usually aggressive toward humans.

(AP Photo/ Dutch Customs, Schiphol)

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Spy Gear An X-ray image showing electronic equipment concealed in a rock, which was claimed to be used by four British embassy staff members to receive intelligence information provided by Russian agents. Russia's main intelligence agency said that it had uncovered spying activities by four British diplomats.

(AP Photo/ RTR Russian Channel)

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Left Behind This X-ray shows a 6.7-inch pair of surgical scissors in the abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney, Australia, in 2004. Skinner had an operation in May 2001, but continued to suffer intense pain. It was only when she insisted on an X-ray 18 months later that she discovered the scissors inside.

(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

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Drug Smuggling A man reacts with dismay, background, after Colombian police allegedly discovered 38 latex capsules of cocaine in his stomach, shown in the X-ray image, foreground, at Bogota's El Dorado international airport.

(AP Photo/ Javier Galeano)

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Hitler's Skull Public Record Office conservator Ann Binns looks at an X-Ray photograph of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's skull at the record office in London. The X-ray was uncovered by a researcher in a War Office file in 1995. This is one five X-Rays of Hitler's skull from July 1944 which were seized with the papers of Hitler's personal physician Dr. Theo Morrell at the end of the Second World War.

(AP Photo/Fiona Hanson, PA)

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