Doug Perrine / Laysan albatrosses (Phoebastria immutabilis) chicks on nests around an old gun battery part of WWII defences. Eastern Island, Midway Atoll. March 2010.

Cyril Ruoso / Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti) two standing on beach together, Punta San Juan, Peru

Chris & Monique Fallows / King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony, South Georgia, January.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Blue shark (Prionace glauca), Cape Point, South Africa, February.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) predating Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, July. Sequence 3 of 3

Chris & Monique Fallows / Mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) near surface, Cape Point, South Africa, March 2015

Chris & Monique Fallows / Blue shark (Prionace glauca) group of three, Cape Point, South Africa, February.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) with fins at water's surface at sunset, with birds in the background, Gansbaai, South Africa, July.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Sunfish (Mola mola) at Cape Point, South Africa.

Doug Perrine / Pygmy shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus) portrait, captive. Kona, Hawaii. Central Pacific Ocean.

Doug Perrine / Pygmy shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus) portrait, captive. Kona, Hawaii. Central Pacific Ocean. Digitally manipulated image.

Jiri Lochman / Southern death adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) Darling Range, southern Western Australia, April. Dangerously venomous species.

Daniel Heuclin / Koh Tao caecilian (Ichthyophis kohtaoensis) Thailand.

Cyril Ruoso / Alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) swimming in stream, heading to pond in breeding season, Alps, France, June..

Daniel Heuclin / Siamese crocodile (Crocodymus siamensis) basking, Thailand. Critically endangered.

Daniel Heuclin / King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) Thailand

Daniel Heuclin / Thai spadefoot toad (Leptobrachium hendricksoni) Thailand

Cyril Ruoso / Common frog (Rana temporaria) sitting on snow in the breeding season in the Alps, France, June..

Cyril Ruoso / Common frog (Rana temporaria) jumping towards pond in breeding season in the Alps, France, June..

Cyril Ruoso / Common frog (Rana temporaria) split level view of frog swimming in pond in breeding season in the Alps, France, June..

Cyril Ruoso / Common frog (Rana temporaria) mass of frogs moving across snow towards pond in breeding season in the Alps, France, June..

Andy Sands / Jumping spider (Evarcha arcuata) on edge of evening primrose flower, Surrey, England, UK, August

Andy Sands / Blue mason bee (Osmia leaiana) female, scopa packed with pollen, in flight returning to nest in bamboo tube in bee hotel, garden, Hertfordshire, England, UK, June

Jiri Lochman / Jewel beetle (Castiarina sanguinolenta) feeding on a Leptospermum flower, endemic to Western Australia. Mount Frankland National Park, Western Australia. February.

Jiri Lochman / Jewel beetle (Temognatha heros) feeding on Eucalyptus flowers, Lake Cronin Nature Reserve, Western Australia, February.

Andres M. Dominguez / Western clubtail dragonfly (Gomphus pulchellus), Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, southern Spain. June.

Pal Hermansen / Group of Icelandic horses, Hofn, Iceland, June.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Bronze whaler shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus), caught in traditional seine net and released by fisherman, Muizenberg beach, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2014

Andy Sands / Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystina) two young toadstools growing up from mossy log, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, September

Andres M. Dominguez / Alkanet flowers (Anchusa azurea) Prado del Rey, Cdiz, Spain, April.

Nick Upton / Gornje Bare glacier lake with peaks of the Zelengora mountain range, background and clumps of European stonecrop (Sedum ochroleucum), foreground, Sutjeska National Park, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 2...

Nick Upton / Rock cranesbill / Balkan cranesbill (Geranium macrorrhizum) flowering among limestone ricks and scree on Mount Maglic, with the Zelengora range, background, Sutjeska National Park, Bosnia and Herzegov...

Cyril Ruoso / Aerial view of Nazca coastal desert with sand dunes in Paracas National Reserve, Peru

Juan Carlos Munoz / Massive sand dunes of Namib Naukluft National Park, Namibia

Juan Carlos Munoz / Aerial view of Deadvlei with sand dune habitat, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia

Pal Hermansen / First light in Svalbard with moon low against mountains, near Longyearbyen, Norway, February.

Pal Hermansen / First light over Svalbard, Norway, February.