Guy Edwardes / Aurora Borealis over Sycamore Gap, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, England. February 2014

Guy Edwardes / Sunrise through stone at Men-An-Tol, Morvah, Cornwall, England, UK. September 2016.

Guy Edwardes / Corfe Castle in morning mist, Corfe, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK. September 2013.

Guy Edwardes / Corfe Castle in morning mist, Corfe, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK. September 2013.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Ingo Arndt / Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) nest in Senckenberg Natural Hystory Collection Dresden, Germany.

Paul D Stewart / Photographic reconstruction of Archaeopteryx by Paul D. Stewart. The fossils of this species was from 150 million years ago, and is thought of as a stage between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds.

Guy Edwardes / Lanyon Quoit ancient burial chamber, Madron, Cornwall, England, UK. September 2015.

Sven Zacek / Eilean Donan Castle lit up at twilight with dark clouds. Scotland, UK, September 2013.

SINCLAIR STAMMERS / Preserved Coelocanth (Latimeria chalumnae) on public display at the Natural History Museum in London, found originally off the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean. In life they are a dark blue colour w...

Christophe Courteau / Conservation & natural history lesson in classroom. Kanare Village, Sahel, Niger, Africa.

Paul D Stewart / 1881 portrait of Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) English Naturalist and author of the Origin of Species. 1922 Hand coloured portrait aquatint of Darwin by G. Sidney Hunt after...

Paul D Stewart / Restoration of the Iguanodon by Alice B. Woodward from Lydekker's The Royal Natural History' Frederick Warne and co, 1896. This is one of the first reconstructions to correctly show the Iguanodon's th...

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of a Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus), with hand colouring possibly by Donovan himself. While most plates were thinly coloured to tint the interstices of the lines of the engraving b...

Paul D Stewart / 1853 illustration of Gorilla, contemporary coloured copperplate engraving from 'Das Buch der Welt' John Weik, Stuttgart. The lowland Gorilla was first accurately described outside Africa by the missio...

Chadden Hunter / Cameraman Jeff Turner and Producer Chadden Hunter exposed at -40 degrees in Arctic circle in Northern Canada while filming wolves and bison hunting sequence. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet se...

Chadden Hunter / Frozen Planet team, training on snow mobiles, Svalbard. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, 2008

Chadden Hunter / Filming on the Antarctic sea-ice at the edge of a small hole. A cameraman gets a shock when a Killer whale (Orcinus orca) mother and calf explode out of the water in front of his face. Taken on locat...

Kathryn Jeffs / Dr Robert (Bob) Pitman and Dr John Durban, scientific advisors, watching for Killer whales (Orcinus orca) on board the 'Golden Fleece', off Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, January 2009, Taken on loca...

Kathryn Jeffs / Filming Southern Type B Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Antarctica. Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series, January 2009

Jeff Wilson / Frozen planet team clothes and equipment ready for Antarctica expedition to Ross Sea, in National Science Foundation hanger, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 2009. Taken on location for BBC series,...

Martin Dohrn / Ammonite night filming crew on location for National Geographic Nighstalkers, Yala National Park, Sri Lanka, 2010. *THIS IMAGE CAN ONLY BE USED IF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NIGHTSTALKERS IS REFERENCED*

Patrick Morris / Cameraman Paul Stewart filming pair of Waved albatross {Phoebastria irrorata} Espanola Is, Galapagos

Leo & Mandy Dickinson / Camerman with parachute jumps from hot air balloon ready to film peregrine falcon diving after lure 'Ultimate Killers' 2000

Doug Allan / Doug Allan filming under sea ice in Lancaster Sound, Arctic Canada

NEIL NIGHTINGALE / Filming saguaro cactus flowers Arizona, USA

Neil Lucas / Richard Ganniclifft filming bush fire in Western Australia, on location for BBC series 'Private Life of Plants' 1993

John Downer / Remote camera in protective housing and bait used to film wild lion close up for BBC television series 'Lifesense'

Philippe Clement / Tre Cime di Lavaredo / Drei Zinnen, three mountain peaks viewed from WW1 cave shelter. Sexten Dolomites seen from WW1 cave shelter, South Tyrol, Italy, October 2019

David Woodfall / Honey bee (Apis mellifera) on Sea holly (Eryngium) Wales, UK, July.

Clay Bolt / Natural history photographer Clay Bolt and writer Glen Chilton examine a termite mound while searching for Wallace's giant bee (Megachile pluto) Mollucas, Indonesia. January 2019

Guy Edwardes / Aurora Borealis over Sycamore Gap, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland, England. February 2014

Remi Masson / Remains of prehistoric pile dwellings / stilt houses in Lake Annecy, part of 'Prehisotric pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site', Haute-Savoie, France, October.

Neil Aldridge / Young White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in a reinforced steel boma, blindfolded and partially drugged after a long journey from South Africa, before being released into the wild in Botswana. Sept...

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2014.

Emanuele Biggi / Deserta Grande wolf spider (Hogna ingens) and other spider specimens in a display case, Funchal's Natural History Museum, Madeira, Portugal.

Tom Gilks / Natural History Museum of Kigali, also known as Kandt House, Kigali, Rwanda, April 2014.

Tom Gilks / African elephant skull (Loxodonta africana) Natural History Museum of Kigali, also known as Kandt House, Kigali, Rwanda, April 2014.

Tom Gilks / Natural History Museum of Kigali, also known as Kandt House, Kigali, Rwanda, April 2014.

Ingo Arndt / Eurasian Collared-dove (Streptopelia decaocto) nest built from wire collected at a nearby junkyard, in collection at State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart / Staatliches Museum fr Naturkunde Stuttg...

Ingo Arndt / Steely-vented Hummingbird (Amazilia saucerrottei) nest in Senckenberg Natural History Collection, Dresden, Germany.

Ingo Arndt / Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) nest / drey, Germany.

Jiri Lochman / Historical woolshed, Mungo National Park, Willandra Lakes UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site, New South Wales, Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Wolgan Valley Historic Hotel, Wolgan River Valley, Wollemi National Park, Shark Bay UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site, New South Wales, Australia.

Graham Eaton / Hadrian's Wall between Steel Rigg and Housesteads on The Whin Sill, a layer of hard intrusive, volcanic Dolerite naturally forming high ground, Northumberland, England, UK, March 2017.

Pal Hermansen / Mummified child, buried around 1475 in NW Greenland, near Ummanaq, discovered in 1972, now in Greenland Natural History Museum, Nuuk, Greenland. July. 2016.

Clay Bolt / Franklin's bumblebee (Bombus franklini), photographed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. This is the first known species of North American bumble bee that is suspected to hav...

Clay Bolt / Franklin's bumblebee (Bombus franklini), photographed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. This is the first known species of North American bumble bee that is suspected to hav...

Clay Bolt / Franklin's bumblebee (Bombus franklini), photographed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. This is the first known species of North American bumble bee that is suspected to hav...

Clay Bolt / Franklin's bumblebee (Bombus franklini), photographed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. This is the first known species of North American bumble bee that is suspected to hav...

Tony Wu / Plastic garbage found in the gastrointestinal system of 10.6m female Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) found off Jurong Island, Singapore in July 2015. This whale also had injuries in the caudal ar...

Tony Wu / Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) skeleton of female dubbed Jubilee, on display at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore. This 10.6m adult whale was found off Jurong Island in July...

Merryn Thomas / Arthur's Stone in evening light, Cefn Bryn, Gower Area Of Natural Beauty (AONB), Wales. June 2013.

Jean E. Roche / Siebold's crab apple (Malus sieboldii) blossom, outside Paris Natural History Museum, Paris, France, April 2015.

Nick Turner / Windmill at Tysoe, Cotswolds Area Of Natural Beauty, UK. January 2016.

Nick Turner / Windmill at Tysoe, Cotswolds Area Of Natural Beauty, UK. January 2016.

Paul D Stewart / Photograph of Charles Darwin taken by Lock & Whitfield in 1877 and published in' Men of Mark' 1878.

Paul D Stewart / Lithograph of the Moody Footmark Quarry in South Hadley, where Pliny Moody discovered the very first fossil tracks in 1802. From Hitchcock, Edward. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone...

Paul D Stewart / Lithograph of a slab with multiple dinosaur trackways. From 'Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, especially its Fossil Footmarks'. Boston: William White, 185...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Monitor lizard (Lacerta monitor) now known as the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) from J. Frid Gmelin and Carl Linnaeus (posthumous). 'A Genuine and Universal System of Natural Histo...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration 'An Orang-Outang carrying off a Negro Girl' Frontispiece from volume two of Sibly 'An universal system of natural history : including the natural history of man, the Orang-Outang and the...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Hornets and Wasps, from Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects by J.O. Westwood, 1845.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Goliath Beetle (Goliathus goliatus) and Chafer beetles, from Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects by J.O. Westwood, 1845

Paul D Stewart / Shell of extant deep water squid Spirula (Spirula spirula) backlit and sectioned to show how the structure of partitions within the shell is reminiscent of the extinct ammonites and living nautiloids.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of a Vampire bat (Vespertilio vampyrus) by Heath published 1800 in George Shaw 'General Zoology or Systematic Zoology', in which the Vampire bats feeding habits are described. However th...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Peeping frog - now commonly called Northern Leopard frog (Rana pipiens) plate by Hill. From George Shaw 'General Zoology or Systematic Natural History 1802.

Paul D Stewart / Skeleton of a seahorse (Hippocampus sp.) showing the remarkable structure of bones that form a virtual exoskeleton, with few deep internal bones, in this unusual vertebrate group.

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of great sea monster reported by Hans Egede in 1735. From The Naturalist's Library by Sir William Jardine. This monster or was reportedly spotted off the coast of Greenland, and...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of extinct Quagga (Equus quagga quagga) by Christian von Schreber, from 'Die Sauetheire in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen' 1883.

Paul D Stewart / Wildlife cameraman and photographer Paul D. Stewart in Cambodia filming for the BBC Natural History Unit. March 2013.

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration showing the displays of various birds of paradise: Red bird-of-paradise (Paradisea rubra), Superb bird of paradise (Lophorina superba), Wilson's bird of paradise (Cicinnurus re...

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) Pierre Denys de Montfort engraving from 'Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particuliere des Mollusques', 1801-1802.

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of Mandrake (Mandragora officinarum) flowers and fruits from the Paris Royal Botanic Garden. Engraving by Stumpf, in 'Dictionarium, Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geograp...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817- 1912) botanist, by George Richmond, reproduced in Hooker's ' Life and Letters'. Hooker was a good friend of Darwin and the director of Kew Gardens.

Paul D Stewart / Duck billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) engraved by W. Lizars. From 'The Natural History of Marsupialia or Pouched Animals' 1841 by G.R. Waterhouse.

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of Sea Hares from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491 - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. During the middle ages all manner of land animals were thought to have their o...

Paul D Stewart / 1491 Woodblock illustration of from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. Shows an apothecary removing a toad stone bezoar from a large toad's 'third eye'. Toad s...

Paul D Stewart / 1491 Woodblock illustration of a from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - man taking a cure for snake bite. Hortus Sanitatis translates from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. The Hortus was the first printed na...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. Showing the snake Cerastes and the cyanocephalus dog headed man. The Hortus was the first printe...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of a Phoenix in her nest of fire from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491- translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. The Hortus was the first printed natural history encyclopa...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration, the first printed image of a falconer with hawks, from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491 - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Helath'. The Hortus was the first printed natural...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of Camels from Ortus (Hortus) Sanitatis 1491 - translated from the latin as 'Garden of Health'. This is the first printed illustration of a camel in literature. The Hortus was...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of a camel from Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis 1491 - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health'. This is the first printed illustration of a camel in literature. The Hortus was...

Paul D Stewart / Woodblock illustration of Mandrake (Mandragora) from two pages of the Ortus (Hortus) sanitatis - translated from the Latin as 'Garden of Health' by Jacob Meydenbach, 1491. He describes plants and anim...

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of primates from Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte (2nd edition) by Ernst Haeckel, 1870. Haekel was a leading proponent of what is now described as scientific racism and believed...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Great auk (Pinguinus impennis) swimming, from Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant's book 'British Zoology' 1776 .This species, now extinct was last sighted in 1852 on the Grand Banks of Ne...

Paul D Stewart / Flame bowerbird (Sericulus aureus) male decorating bower with berries to attract females, Papua New Guinea.

Paul D Stewart / Flame bowerbird (Sericulus aureus) male with bower with berries, Papua New Guinea

Paul D Stewart / 'The Falkland Island Aguara dog' the extinct Falkland wolf (Canis antarctus / Dusicyon australis) plate 23 steel engraving with hand colouring as issued. From 'Natural History of Dogs' Charles Hamilt...

Paul D Stewart / Antique copper plate illustration of a Dodo (Raphys cucullatus) 'Zoological Lectures' by George Shaw, 1809, illustrated by Mrs Griffith.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Samoan tooth billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris) antique folio lithograph Published 1844-49, for 'The Genera of Birds.' by George Edward Gray. Illustrated by David William Mitchel...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Greater crucifix beetle (Panagaeus cruxmajor) from Donovan's 'Natural History of British Insects', circa 1806.

Paul D Stewart / Darwin in the Woods - historical cartoon of Charles Darwin entitled 'Natural Selection' by Frederick Waddy from his 'Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day' 1873.

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of extinct Puri tribe from North Coast of South America. Mother and child, and man in hammock, with poison dart frog held over fire to collect its toxin, used for poison darts...

Paul D Stewart / Historical illustration of local man hunting Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) 1853 Engraving. Extinct in the wild, with possible zoo specimens claimed to be pure Barbary lion.