Stephane Granzotto / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) feeding in snow, digging with hooves, Rhone-Alpes, France, December.

Stephane Granzotto / Close-up of an Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) chewing, shot moves to eye, Rhone-Alpes, France, December.

Bert Willaert / Closeup of a Orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides), Kimbe Bay, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Roy Mangersnes / Kelp goose (Chloephaga hybrida) closeup from Gypsy Cove on the Falkland Islands.

Frederique Olivier / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) reaching with its trunk to feed from a tree, Serengeti NP, Tanzania.

Kim Taylor / Common earwig (Forficula auricularia) closeup of head. Surrey, England, September. Digitally manipulated.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Miners panning for diamonds in a pool, Kono District, Sierra Leone, 2007.

Ingo Arndt / Greater Burnet (Acaena magellanica) Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia Island, February

Ingo Arndt / Grevillea flower (Grevillea dryandri) Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, December

Peter Schwarz/ BIA / Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) head closeup, Hesse, Germany

Marie Read / Western grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis), closeup of adult swimming with chicks riding on its back, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Utah, USA, May.

Marie Read / Western grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis), closeup of adult swimming with chicks riding on its back, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Tuah, USA, May.