Bert Willaert / Natterjack toad (Epidalea calamita / Bufo calamita) next to an empty bullet cartridge on military land, Belgium, June.

Rick Tomlinson / Aerial view, taken from the mast, of SY "Adele"'s bow in the bay of an iceberg, Portal Point, Reclus Pennisula, Antarctica, January 2007 Non editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Inaki Relanzon / A high view of mist shrouding an autumnal valley. Cadi Natural Park, Catalonia, Barcelona province, Pyrenees, Spain, October 2005.

Alex Mustard / An adult California sealion (Zalophus californianus) makes a sharp turn at high speed. Los Islotes, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico. Sea of Cortez, East Pacific Ocean.

Bernard Castelein / Buddhist monk playing the Lawah (long trumpet) during afternoon pudja, Tso Kar, Ladakh, India, June 2010

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Geoffroy's Tailless Bat (Anoura geoffroyi) visiting an epiphytic Bromeliad (Vriesia sp) note pollen on head and shoulders, Costa Rica

Michael Durham / Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) jumping as an evasive behavior, Forest Park, Oregon

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group grab an adjacent leaf and stem with mandibles and toes and pull, gradually binding them together to make a nest, Malaysia

Mark Moffett / Weaver Ant (Oecophylla longinoda) group grab an adjacent leaf and stem with mandibles and toes and pull, gradually binding them together to make a nest, Malaysia

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Desert Death Adder (Acanthophis pyrrhus) coiled in desert using tip of tail as a lure, an example of caudal luring, Australia

Fred Bavendam / Common Comet Star (Linckia guildingii) in an unusual lavender color variation, it is typically beige or yellowish in color, Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Gavin Hellier / Hallgrimskirkja, the vast modernist church that looms over Reykjavik. In front is a statue of Leifur Eriksson, the Viking chief who almost certainly discovered America 500 years before Columbus. The 7...

Gavin Hellier / Hallgrimskirkja, the vast modernist church that looms over Reykjavik. In front is a statue of Leifur Eriksson, the Viking chief who almost certainly discovered America 500 years before Columbus. The 7...

Bertie Gregory / 2020VISION / Adult female Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) taking flight from the roof an office block, Bristol, England, UK, May. Did you know? Peregrine falcons have specially adapted nostrils to prevent the...

Floris van Breugel / Water from the spring melt of snow at high elevations creating an immense volume of water, California's Yosemite National Park, June.

Graham Eaton / An aerial view of Nairobi, Kenya, May

Yukihiro Fukuda / Researcher using an aerial to track Japanese giant salamanders (Andrias japonicus) fitted with radio trackers, Japan, August

Brent Stephenson / Bull kelp (Durvillaea sp) on an exposed high energy rocky shoreline near the entrance to the sea. Doubtful Sound, Fiordland, South Island, New Zealand.

Nick Upton / Sign warning when it is unsafe to cross a tidal causeway, with the Worm's head cut off from the mainland as an island at high tide, Rhossili, The Gower peninsula, Wales, UK, July. Sequence 2 of 2 matc...

Nick Upton / Overview of the Worm's head cut off from the mainland as an island at high tide, Rhossili, The Gower peninsula, Wales, UK, July. Sequence 2 of 2, matching views at different tides

Nick Upton / Long exposure view of limestone rocks washed by waves with the Worm's head in the background, cut off from the mainland as an island at high tide, Rhossili, The Gower peninsula, Wales, UK, July. Seque...

Nick Upton / Limestone rocks washed by waves with the Worm's head in the background, cut off from the mainland as an island at high tide, Rhossili, The Gower peninsula, Wales, UK, July. Sequence 2 of 3 at differen...

Nick Upton / Purple laver (Porphyra umbilicalis) an edible seaweed collected for food in parts of the UK, growing on sandstone high on a rocky shore, Wembury, Devon, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Purple laver (Porphyra umbilicalis), an edible seaweed collected for food in parts of the UK, growing on sandstone high on a rocky shore, Wembury, Devon, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Common limpets (Patella vulgata), Common barnacles (Balanus balanoides) and a yellow Rough periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis) nestling in depressions and under an overhang in sandstone rocks high on the...

Nick Upton / Common limpets (Patella vulgata) and Common barnacles (Balanus balanoides) nestling in depressions and under an overhang in sandstone rocks high on the shore at Crail, Scotland, UK, July.

Sandesh Kadur / Common emigrant butterflies (Catopsilia pomona) gather on old tiger scat to absorb nutrients. The rains bring about an explosion of butterflies all over the Western Ghats. Western Ghats, Southern Indi...

Rick Tomlinson / Aerial view, taken from the mast, of SY "Adele"'s bow in the bay of an iceberg, Portal Point, Reclus Pennisula, Antarctica, January 2007 Non editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Piotr Naskrecki / Jumping Spider (Salticidae), an ant mimic, Sipaliwini, Surinam

MYN / Paul Harcourt Davies / Cypress spurge (Euphorbia cyparissa) a common plant with an altitude reange from Mediterranean sea level to high alps, Italy, June. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Paul Harcourt Davies / Cypress spurge (Euphorbia cyparissa) a common plant with an altitude reange from Mediterranean sea level to high alps, Italy, June. meetyourneighbours.net project

Simon Colmer / Steudner's Dragon tree (Dracaena steudneri) Medicinal plant used as an anti-bacterial, anti-viral and combats high blood pressure

Jeff Wilson / The sun returns for the first time to Svalbard, Norway, in the High Arctic after an absence of six months during the Arctic winter, February 2009. Taken on location for the BBC series, Frozen Planet.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Photographers on the Professor Mulchanov taking pictures of a Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) on an ice floe. Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, June 2008.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) climbing an icy path to a high colony site on the side of the Lemaire Channel, Southern Ocean, Antarctica, October.

Juergen Freund / Researcher Guido Westhoff photographing an olive python (Liasis olivaceus) on a termite mound. Queensland, Australia, February 2008

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Ice breaker "Clipper Adventurer" passing an iceberg in the Lemaire Channel on a grey day, Antarctica, February 2009.

Nick Upton / Tourists descending a waterfall on the Mreznica river in an inflatable white water raft, Zvecaj, Karlovacka, Croatia, July.

David Woodfall / Community mobile bee (Apis mellifera) hive in Saxon village. A low key, sustainable way to increase and maintain biodiversity and high quality landscapes. Part of an EEC scheme run by the NGO ADEPT. R...

Pete Oxford / Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings going to sea after being released, Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Roger Powell / Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) incubating in a "nest box" placed in a bay of Porsanger fjord. These nest boxes were originally used to provide a supply of eggs for food to local inhabitants, bu...

Alex Mustard / Outline of an Angelshark (Squatina squatina) buried in the sand. Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. East Atlantic Ocean.

Alex Mustard / An Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) rejoins its pod over a shallow sand bank. Sandy Ridge, Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas. Tropical West Atlantic Ocean.

Alex Mustard / Looking down on an Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) swimming over Bahama Bank. Sandy Ridge, Little Bahama Bank. Bahamas

Solvin Zankl / An Olive ridley sea turtle hatchling (Lepidochelys olivacea) on its way to the sea. The hatchlings orientate themselves by the brightness of the horizon above the ocean, Ostional NP, Costa Rica. Octob...

Philip Stephen / Looking down at an inlet in the rocky coastline of Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, August 2010.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Moonwort (Botrychium lunaria) an unusual fern of high mountain and other limestone areas shown with frond and fruiting body, Umbria, Italy

Anup Shah / Olive baboon (Papio cynocephalus anubis) high ranking baby aged 3-6 months protesting over being picked up by an adult, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. March.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Warning sign for high levels of PCBs at an old DEW line station. Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, 1992.

Tim Laman / Array of rainforest fruits eaten by an orangutan during one day, during a high fruit availability period. Included are: Nephilium, Dipterocarpus, Baccaurea, and Artocarpus. Gunung Palung National Park...

Tui De Roy / Saddleback Galapagos Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra hoodensis) named Diego, an old male returned to the Galapagos from the San Diego Zoo in 1977 and sire of large number of young in captive breeding prog...

Tui De Roy / Saddleback Galapagos Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra hoodensis) named Diego, an old male returned to the Galapagos from the San Diego Zoo in 1977 and sire of large number of young in captive breeding prog...

Juergen Freund / 13 captured Chambered nautilus {Nautilus pompilius} in an ice box on board 'Undersea Explorer'. They will be measured, recorded and released in the reef. 2007

Juergen Freund / Looking down through shallow water at Coral reef in the far northern outer Great Barrier Reef on an exceptionally calm day, Queensland, Australia.

Juergen Freund / Looking down through shallow water at Coral reef in the far northern outer Great Barrier Reef on an exceptionally calm day, Queensland, Australia.

Graham Eaton / European Eel (Anguilla anguilla) in an abandoned slate quarry, North Wales, UK, October 2009

Tim Laman / Self portrait of Photographer, Tim Laman, climbing an emergent mahogany tree in the Gran Caldera Volcanica de Luba, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Rapid Assessment Visual Unit, International League...

Fred Bavendam / Torpedo Ray (Torpedo sp), an electric ray on ocean floor, Komodo Island, Indonesia

Fred Bavendam / Coffin Ray (Hypnos monopterygium), an electric ray on ocean floor, Edithburgh, Australia

Wild Wonders of Europe / E Haarberg / Looking down on Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) crossing an avalanche field, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy, November 2008

Steven David Miller / Archer fish {Toxotes chatareus} spitting a stream of water at an insect to knock it down for food, Chamberlain Gorge, El Questro, Kimberley, Western Australia, September

Grant Dixon / Twelve Apostles, part of an eroding limestone coastline, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia

PREMAPHOTOS / Andean foam-nest frog (Pleurodema cinerea) male calling with inflated throat-sac, at an altitude of 4000m in the Bolivian Andes

PREMAPHOTOS / Andean tree frog (Hyla pulchella) in a temporary seasonal marsh at an altitude of 3400m in the Bolivian Andes

Michael Durham / Ichneumon Wasp (Ophion luteus) flying. Photographed with a high-speed camera in an ponderosa pine forest canyon habitat, northeast Oregon

Michael Durham / Wandering Bumblebee (Bombus vagans) pair collecting nectar on flowers, the tattered wing on the flying adult indicates an older bee, near the Metolius River, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Geoffroy's Tailless Bat (Anoura geoffroyi) visiting an epiphytic Bromeliad (Vriesia sp) note pollen on head and shoulders, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Spider of unknown species living under bark of an Elephant damaged Baobab tree, Botswana

Piotr Naskrecki / Darkling Beetle (Tenebrionidae) living under the bark of an Elephant-damaged Baobab tree, Botswana

Piotr Naskrecki / Spider of unknown species living under bark of an Elephant damaged Baobab tree, Botswana

Piotr Naskrecki / True Bug pair living under loosened bark of an Elephant damaged Baobab tree, Botswana

Piotr Naskrecki / Nymph of an unidentified Planthopper, becomes transparent when lit from below, Guinea, West Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Planarian (Planariidae) the only members of the Flatworm family (Platyhelminthes) an aquatic dwelling group that has adapted to live and move on land by the action of a strip of powerful, closely spac...

Piotr Naskrecki / Planarian (Planariidae) the only members of the Flatworm family (Platyhelminthes) an aquatic dwelling group that has adapted to live and move on land by the action of a strip of powerful, closely spac...

Piotr Naskrecki / Planarian (Planariidae) the only members of the Flatworm family (Platyhelminthes) an aquatic dwelling group that has adapted to live and move on land by the action of a strip of powerful, closely spac...

Kim Taylor / Cat fleas {Ctenocephalides felis} UK. Cat fleas can jump 33cm high, far outstretching the jumping capabilities of a human. They would win a silver high jump medal in an animal olympics competition!

Kim Taylor / Archerfish {Toxotes chatareus} jetting water to catch spider prey. Captive. These fish would win the archery medal in an animal olympics competition!

Kim Taylor / Froghopper (Issus coleoptratus) late nymph. Surrey, UK. Froghoppers are the world's high-jump champions and would win a gold medal in an animal olympics competition! They can jump 70cm (more than 100...

Michael Durham / Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) jumping as an evasive behavior, Forest Park, Oregon

Michael Durham / Venosa Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea venosa) with ants on edge of pitcher, an insectivorous plant native to swampy bogs of the southeastern US

Colin Monteath / Lenga Beech (Nothofagus pumilio) trees, felled by an American Beaver (Castor canadensis) and used to build nest mound, southern Argentina

Colin Monteath / Winter smog over the city of Christchurch caused by an inversion layer and pollution from cars and fires, seen through trees from Port Hills, South Island, New Zealand

Claus Meyer / Sao Francisco Falls, 186 meters high, cascading over cliff in an amphitheater carved from basaltic rock lined with Araucaria pines (Araucaria angustifolia), Prudentopolis, southern Brazil

Colin Monteath / Storm engulfing K2 an 8,611 meter tall peak above Godwin Austen Glacier, Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Death Adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) venomous snake uses tail to lure prey, an example of caudal luring, captive, Australia

Mark Jones / Vicuna (Vicugna vicugna) at 4,300 meter elevation, an alert male surveys his territory, Apurimac, Peruvian Andes, Peru

Fred Bavendam / Frilled Sea Anemone (Metridium senile) surrounded by genetic clones of an Orange Frilled Sea Anemone, British Columbia, Canada

Flip Nicklin / Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) aerial view of an 80 foot individual, Sea of Cortez, Mexico

Fred Bavendam / Butterfly Perch (Caesioperca lepidoptera) swimming in an invertebrate community including Sponges, Gorgonians and Golden Zoanthids at 35 meters depth, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia

Fred Bavendam / Coral Grouper (Cephalopholis miniata) exhibiting an unusual pale coloration pattern at dusk, Bali, Indonesia

JIM CLARE / 'El Candelabro' Paracas NP, Peru, South America - an 180-metre high ancient carving

Paul D Stewart / High resolution steel engraving portrait of Charles Darwin by C.Cook, printed by William Mackenzie, the Scottish printer and publisher in 1899. It appears in James Taylor's 'The Victorian Empire' and...

Paul D Stewart / 19th century lithograph illustration of a Jurassic landscape including the dinosaurs: Megalosaurus (1), Iguanodon (2 with incorrect nose spike), Hylaeosaurus (3 with incorrect orientation of spines) L...

Rick Tomlinson / Kariba Dam, Zimbabwe is located approximately halfway down the Zambezi River. The dam was surrounded by controversy, both environmentally and socially, it is an impressive monument to man's engineerin...

Rick Tomlinson / Aerial shot from the masthead into the cockpit on "Team EF" in the Atlantic during the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1997. She had an all female crew.

Rick Tomlinson / "Fazisi" racing in the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1989-90. ^^^ Fazisi was the first and only boat from the former Soviet Union to enter this challenging and enduring race. Built in the Soviet Un...