Wild Wonders of Europe / Lilja / Snail shells on Crown daisy (Glebionis coronarium) flower, Kritsa, Crete, Greece, April 2009

Simon Colmer / Hard fern (Blechnum spicant) frond uncurling, Perthshire, Scotland, UK.

Ross Hoddinott / Hard fern {Blechnum spicant} frond uncurling, Cornwall, UK. April

Edwin Giesbers / Parson's chameleon (Chamaeleo parsonii) close-up of tail, Madagascar

Nick Garbutt / Male Parson's Chameleon (Chamaeleo parsonii) detail of coiled tail, rainforest understorey. Masoala National Park, Madagascar.

Pete Oxford / Close up of coiled Chameleon tail, MADAGASCAR

Alex Hyde / Panther chameleon, close up of tail uncoiling {Furcifer pardalis} Madagascar.

Alex Hyde / Close up of coiled tail of Parson's chameleon {Calumma parsonii} showing scales and strong green colouration. Tropical rainforest, Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.

Alex Hyde / Panther chameleon tail {Furcifer pardalis} close up of coiled tail, red colouration, Madagascar.

Edwin Giesbers / Parson's chameleon (Chamaeleo parsonii) close-up of tail, Madagascar

Alan Watson / Coiled tail of the female Chameleon (Furcifer balteatus) Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Alex Hyde / Oustalet's chameleon {Furcifer oustaleti} juvenile on branch at night, dry deciduous forest, Kirindy Forest. Western Madagascar.

Pete Oxford / Oustalet's chameleon {Furcifer oustaleti} female at night, Ankarana Special R, Madagascar,

Pete Oxford / O'shaughnessy's chameleon (Calumma oshaughnessyi) night time sleeping position, Andohahela National Park, MADAGASCAR, endemic

Pete Oxford / Panther chameleon {Chamaeleo / Furcifer pardalis} on branch with coiled tail, Madagascar

Kim Taylor / Giant millipede coiled for defense {Diplopoda} East Africa

Paul Harcourt Davies / Striped Millipede (Ommatoiulus sabulosus) curled up in leaf litter of an ancient woodland, Orvieto, Italy, Europe.

Edwin Giesbers / Land hermit crab (Coenobita rugosus) in spiral seashell on beach, Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Tim Laman / Rainforest snail on a leaf, tropical rainforest, Borneo

Tim Laman / Green snail (Rhinocochlis nasuta) moving along a leaf, Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / White-lipped banded snail (Cepaea hortensis) UK

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / White-lipped banded snail (Cepaea hortensis) Shell colour variable, can have brown spiral bands. UK

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Cellar snail (Oxychilus cellarius) UK

Willem Kolvoort / Land snail {Polymita picta} endemic to the far East of Cuba near Baracoa, very useful for coffee growth because it eats the fungi on the coffee plant. 1993.

Sue Daly / Flat periwinkles {Littorina littoralis} Jersey, Channel Is, UK Rozel

Edwin Giesbers / Close up of shell of Brown-lipped / Grove / Banded snail (Cepaea nemoralis) Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Europe

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Close up of Painted topshell (Calliostoma zizyphinum) on a Kelp leaf, Moere coastline, Norway, February 2009

Jose B. Ruiz / Common snail {Helix aspersa} close-up of spiral on shell., Spain

Jose B. Ruiz / Snail shell {Otala punctata} Spain

Barry Mansell / Florida tree snail {Liguus fasciatus} Key Largo, Florida, USA, North America

Stephen Dalton / Red rose (Rosa sp), petal whorl, flower

Stephen Dalton / Red rose (Rosa sp) petal whorl, close detail

John Cancalosi / Tendril from rainforest vine, Costa Rica

Pete Oxford / Detail of forest vegetation, western slope of the Mindo Cloud Forest, Ecuador, South America

Edwin Giesbers / Fanged pitcher plant (Nepenthes bicalcarata) Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Edwin Giesbers / Fanged pitcher plant (Nepenthes bicalcarata) Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Edwin Giesbers / Fanged pitcher plant (Nepenthes bicalcarata) Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Nick Garbutt / Aerial / upper pitcher of Pitcher Plant {Nepenthes tentaculata} upper slopes of Mt Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo.

Inaki Relanzon / Pitcher plant (Nepenthes madagascariensis) Channel des Pangalanes, Madagascar

Nick Garbutt / Aerial pitcher of Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes albomarginata) growing in kerangas heath forest, Bako NP, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Solvin Zankl / Seeds of Common storksbill (Erodium cicutarium), Europe. In dry conditions, the ripe seeds are ejected from the fruit. The seed tails are formed from the persisting style which consists of hygroscopic...

Juergen Freund / Whip coral on coral reef, Komodo NP, Indonesia.

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Spiral wire coral (Cirripathes sp) Indonesia. Antipatharia

Juergen Freund / Two whip corals intertwined, Komodo NP, Indonesia.

Juergen Freund / Feather star / Crinoid {Lamprometra sp} on coral head, Indo-Pacific

Juergen Freund / Featherstar opening at night {Crinoidea} Indo-pacific

John Cancalosi / Fossil Crinoid from the Jurassic era, Germany

Lassi Rautiainen / Winter landscape with woodland, river, spiral ice formations and thick snow, Kuusamo, Finland, February 2009

Pete Cairns / Stream running through boreal rainforest, Nord-Trondelag, Norway.

John Cancalosi / White / Dall sheep {Ovis dalli} ram in snow, Yukon, Canada

Edwin Giesbers / Portrait of a European Mouflon (Ovis musimon) male. The Netherlands, January.

Colin Seddon / Swaledale sheep ram {Ovis aries} Cumbria UK

TJ Rich / Free-range organic piglet tails, Wiltshire, UK

Richard Du Toit / Elephant calf holding twig in trunk, Chobe National Park, Botswana, Africa.