Floris van Breugel / Canyon Tree Frogs (Hyla arenicolor) near pond along the lower reaches of Pine Creek, Zion National Park, Utah, USA, June

Floris van Breugel / Darkling Beetle (Tenebrionidae) on sand in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, USA, April.

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies or bubs wrapped in cloth in the nursery at Tolga Bat Hospital, North Queensland, Australia, November 2012

Ben Hall / Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) in flight over mountain peaks with glacier in the distance, Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile. Winner of Landscape category, Nature's Best / Windland S...

Floris van Breugel / Tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata) drift with the current in the calm turquiose waters of a lagoon in Ofu, American Samoa. The window of sky is called Snell's Window, caused by refraction of...

Doc White / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf. Tonga, South Pacific, September.

Neil Aldridge / African Lion (Panthera leo) cub reaches for a moment of intimacy with its father, Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana

Fiona Rogers / Western chimpazee (Pan troglodytes verus) infant male 'Flanle' aged 3 years playing on a branch, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. January 2011.

Mark MacEwen / Broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) baby in mothers mouth being carried from nest, Sante Fe, Argentina, February

Markus Varesvuo / Bohemian waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus) feeding on berries, Uto Finland October

Ben Hall / Northern gannets (Morus / Sula bassanus) portrait of individual with a courting pair in foreground, UK, Bass Rock, Scotland, Portrait category winner in the British Wildlife Photography Awards BWPA co...

Juergen Freund / Aerial view of Hardy Reef, Great Barrier Reef, August 2011

Inaki Relanzon / Long exposure of Godafoss waterfall, Iceland.

Franco Banfi / Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) swimming under ice and exhaling air, Arctic circle Dive Center, White Sea, Karelia, northern Russia. Captive

Danny Green / Fulmer (Fulmras glacialis) in flight near blue glacier, Svalbard, July. Bookplate from Danny Green's 'The Long Journey North'

Jabruson / Western Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) silverback skull with butterfly (Belenois theszi). Gorilla diedd from the Ebola Virus, which killed 128 people in the region in 2003 and in 2005 killed 95% of the Gor...

Franco Banfi / Great Blue shark (Prionace glauca) close up with scuba diver photographer behind, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean

Andy Trowbridge / White-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) in flight. Flatanger, Norway, May.

Erlend Haarberg,Erlend Haarberg / Aerial view down river to the east of the Hofsjakull glacier and west of the Sprengisandur upland desert. Innumerable rivulets flow from beneath the glacier in this area of tundra which abounds in pon...

Franco Banfi / Bivalve scallop (Pedum spondyloideum) inside a coral covered with purple sponge, Maldives, Indian Ocean

Colin Varndell / Red Admiral Butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) on Michaelmas daisy flowers. Dorset, UK, October 2012.

David Tipling / Emperor Penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) chicks Snow Hill Island, Antarctica, November

David Tipling / Red-crowned Cranes (Grus japonensis) displaying at dawn Hokkaido, Japan, February. Did you know? Red crowned cranes mate for life.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) at surface of a loch after diving for a fish, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, July. Did you know? Ospreys have reversible toes, which allow them to carry fish prey.

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) eating pet food left out for it in suburban garden at twilight, Kent, UK, August, taken with camera trap. Did you know? Foxes first colonised British cities in the 1930-40s.~ P...

Denis-Huot / West African / Niger Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta) mother and baby. Zoo of Doue La Fontaine, France. Captive.

Tony Heald / African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus) pack passing infront of large African elephant (Loxodonta africana) Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe October 2012

Ben Hall / Fallow deer (Dama dama) buck bellowing at dawn during the rut, Cheshire, UK, October

Ross Hoddinott / Marbled White butterfly (Melanargia galathea) resting on grass, Dunsdon Nature Reserve, Devon, UK. July

Doug Perrine / Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) being cleaned by yellow tangs (Zebrasoma flavescens) at a cleaning station where the turtles are groomed by the fish in a mutualistic, symbiotic relationship, Puako,...

Franco Banfi / Bridled parrotfish (Scarus frenatus) clownish grin reveals its power tools: grinding teeth used to scrape algae from rock, Maldives, Indian Ocean. Highly commended in the Underwater World Category of...

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / European Badger (Meles meles) on the North Downs above Folkestone. Kent, UK, June. Camera trap photo.

Andy Rouse / European hare (Lepus europaeus) in grass field, UK, May. Highly commended Animal Portraits category, British Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (BWPA) 2013

Danny Green / Hazel Dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) hibernating amongst leaves and acorns. Captive. Leicestershire, UK, October.

Vladimir Medvedev / Wild female Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) on rocky hillside, Kedrovaya Pad reserve, Primorsky Krai, Far East Russia, January. Critically endangered species. Commended in Wildlife Photograp...

Pal Hermansen / Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) attacking Jay (Garrulus glandarius) Telemark, Norway, September

Alex Mustard / A long exposure renders Bar jacks (Carangoides ruber) as ghostly trails as they swim around a sponge, on a coral reef, at night. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Overall winner of GDT competiti...

Bence Mate / Dalmatian pelicans (Pelecanus crispus) underwater view of group feeding, Lake Kirkini, Greece. Highly commended in the GDT competition 2013. Commended in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards c...

Ben Cranke,Ben Cranke / Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) jumping out of the sea, Cuverville Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. Highly commended in the Single Species Portfolio of the Terre Sauvage Nature Images Awards...

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) curious young boar on the newly frozen pack ice reaches for remote camera with paw, Beaufort Sea, off the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, North Slope, Al...

Theo Bosboom,Theo Bosboom / White-legged damselfly (Platycnemis pennipis), Meinerswijk, The Netherlands, June 2005. Highly commended, Animal portraits category, Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards 2006.

Floris van Breugel / Glass beach at sunset - a former dump site, in which the glass has now become pebbles of sea glass. MacKerricher State Park. California. USA. January 2013

Pal Hermansen / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) sitting on an old car, Bastnas, Sweden, January. Winner of the Fritz Polking Prize at the GDT competition 2013 and winner of the Portfolio category in the Melvita Natur...

Richard Du Toit / African Wild Cat (Felis sylvestris) Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana

Denis-Huot / Lionesses (Panthera leo) grooming each other, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Suzi Eszterhas / White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus imitator) mother and baby. Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Alex Mustard / Pair of Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) on their redd in a shallow stream. Female in front of male. Huihil Creek, Adams River, British Colombia, Canada, October.

Claudio Contreras / African horned viper (Cerastes cerastes), captive.

Nick Garbutt / Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) feeding at an Angel's or Devil's Trumpet Flower (Datura sp.). Yanacocha montane cloud forest, Ecuador.

Milan Radisics / Falconer with Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) to keep other bird away from airport, Budapest Airport, Hungary, March 2009

Andy Rouse / Verreaux Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) portrait, Madagascar

Edwin Giesbers / Portrait of a European lynx (Lynx lynx), captive, Norway, February.

Tui De Roy / Fissure eruption of Chico Volcano into 9km diameter caldera. Sierra Negra volcano, Isabela Island, Galapagos, Ecuador. October 2005.

Alex Mustard / A portrait of a small Candy stripe shrimp (Lebbeus grandimanus) in front of its host pink anemone (out of focus because of the magnification). Browning Wall, Browning Pass, Port Hardy, Vancouver Islan...

Claudio Contreras / California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), IUCN Critically Endangered, captive.

Andy Rouse / Maasai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) silhouetted by beams of light from setting sun, Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Winner of the African section of the Natures Best Windland Smith Rice...

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching whilst attacking seal decoy, Seal Island, False Bay South Africa.

Olga Kamenskaya / Ice formation at sunset, Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, March.

Dong Lei / Jungle Crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) perched on tree branch with rainbow, Shejila mountain, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tibet, China. July.

Alex Hyde / Wood Anemones (Anemone nemorosa) in flower on woodland floor, low angle fish eye view, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK, May.

Juergen Freund / Bioluminescent fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis / Pleurotus nidiformis) glowing on tree trunk in rainforest at night, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia,

Franco Banfi / Nudibranch (Janolus cristatus) Vela Luka, Korcula Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

Chris & Monique Fallows / Indo Pacific Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) feeding on sardines (Sardina pilchardus), Isla Mujeres, Mexico, March.

Konrad Wothe / Hoatzins (Opisthocomus hoazin) perched in tropical rainforest, Tambopata Reserve, Peru, South America.

Robin Chittenden / Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) flying past spire, Norwich Cathedral, Norfolk, UK, June.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Domestic Asian elephants (Elephas maximas) used for riding safaris with their keepers, Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal.

Ann & Steve Toon / Namaqua chameleon (Chamaeleo namaquensis), being scanned for microchip, part of conservation project, Namib Desert, Namibia, April

Ann & Steve Toon / Peringuey's adder / Sidewinding adder (Bitis peringueyi), 'sidewinding', Namib Desert, Namibia, May

Alex Hyde / Malaysian Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) pink colour morph, camouflaged on an orchid. Captive, from Malaysia.

Edwin Giesbers / Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), captive, occurs in Sumatra, Indonesia

Juan Carlos Munoz / Black howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) male and two females calling from tree, captive, Apenheul Park, Netherlands.

Angelo Gandolfi / Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) head and beak profile portrait, Brazil.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Light streaming through window on sand covered house in Kolmanskop Ghost Town, an old diamond-mining town where shifting sand dunes have encroached abandoned houses, Namib Desert Namibia, October 2013...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Zemba woman, carrying firewood on her head, Opuwo, Kaokoland, Namibia, September 2013.

David Tipling / Puffin (Fratercula arctica) greeting each other by billing, Shetland Scotland, June.

Andy Trowbridge / Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) at rest on submerged rock, head and one flipper above water. Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK. July.

Radomir Jakubowski / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) male on mountainside at sunrise, Bernese Alps, Switzerland, July. Received honourable mention in the Big Picture Competition awards 2014. Nominated in the Melvita Nature Image...

Radomir Jakubowski / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) close up portrait of young, Bernese Alps, Switzerland, August.

Anup Shah / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) babies huddled in their mother's fur for warmth. Jigokudani Yean-Koen National Park, Japan, February.

Bence Mate / Red and green macaws (Ara chloropterus) in flight, motion blurred photograph, Buraxo das aras, Brazil.

Solvin Zankl / Big fin squid (Magnapinna atlantica) species only known from two specimens collected in the northern Atlantic Ocean. First described in 2006. It is characterised by several unique morphological featu...

Chris & Monique Fallows / Orca (Orcinus orca) breaching, False Bay, South Africa

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carchardon carcharias) breaching on seal decoy at dawn, False Bay, South Africa

Lou Coetzer / Juvenile African jacana (Actophilornis africana) looking at insect on flower, Chobe River, Botswana, April.

Nick Garbutt / Golden-crowned Sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli) leaping through forest canopy. Forests adjacent to the village of Andranotsimaty, near Daraina, northern Madagascar. Critically endangered species.

Lou Coetzer / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) adult and juvenile silhouetted, Chobe River, Botswana, August, Vulnerable species.

Lou Coetzer / Slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea) approaching Boomslang snake (Dispholidus typus) in tree, Etosha National Park, Namibia, July.

Will Burrard-Lucas / Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) group of babies, Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana.