Katherine Feng / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) recovery effort, veterinarian, Wang Chengdog, using hand-held reader to locate Mao Mao's body after the May 12, 2008 earthquake and landslides, CCRCGP, Wolong, Chi...

Jack Dykinga / Tucki Mountain growing red at dawn, reflecting in spring-fed pools on the salt flats, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes with cracked eroded clay formations and creosote bushes (Larrea tridentata), Death Valley National Park, California

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Colorful badlands in the dunes, multicolored layers of sedimentary rocks, water eroded canyons and mountains which encompasses 3.4 million acres of famous wilderness, Zabriskie Point, Death Valley Nat...

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Colorful badlands, Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Sand dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Desert Sunflower (Geraea canescens) amongst boulders on valley floor, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Bird (Raven) tracks in Eureka Sand Dunes with Last Chance Mountains in distance, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Salt formations on salt pan with Panamint Range lit by dawn light, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Eroded clay formations in sand dunes, Inyo Mountains in background, Saline Valley, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Ripples on sand dunes with Amargosa Mountains in background, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Salt crystal formations in partially crystalised salty lake, Panamint Range in distance with dawn light reflected in water, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Salt lake with crystalised patterns, Panamint Mountains in background, dawn, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Saltgrass (Distichlis spicata) with Lizard Tail (Anemopsis californica) in foreground, Warm Sulphur Springs, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Salt lake with crystalised patterns, Panamint Mountains in background, dawn, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Creosote bushes (Larrea tridentata) in-amongst Desert Trumpets (Eriogonum trichopes) Panamint Valley, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Panamint Valley's only remaining pool of water in it's dry lake bed, sunset light on Panamint Mountains, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Creosote bushes (Larrea tridentata) in-amongst Desert Trumpets (Eriogonum trichopes) Panamint Valley, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Boulders with trails across a dry lake bed, sunset, The Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) silhouetted against dawn sky, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Weathered granite boulders with the Nelson Range in the background, southern end of Saline Valley, Death Valley National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Flora in stoney alluvial sediment of the Amargosa Mountain Range, Desert Golds (Geraea canescens) and Phacelia (Phacelia crenulata) Death Valley National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Tucki Mountain and Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Panamint Range reflected in standing water at Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

Doug Wechsler / Coyote {Canis latrans} Death Valley NP, California, USA.

Doug Wechsler / Zabrieski / Zabriski point at sunset with Panmint Mountains behind, Badlands, Death Valley NP, California, USA

Doug Wechsler / Ubehebe volcano crater with Desert holly {Atriplex hymenelytra} Death Valley NP, California, USA

Doug Wechsler / Artist's palette, green colour comes from decomposing mica, Badlands, Death Valley NP, California, USA

Juergen Freund / Wind eroded broken rocks in Death Valley desert, California, USA

Staffan Widstrand / Men and guns reflected in eye of dead Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska, USA. EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Tim Fitzharris / Looking at Panamint Range over the Furnace Creek playa from Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Tea kettles decorating sign at Tea Kettle Junction, Death Valley National Park, California

Sumio Harada / Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) member of the Druid Pack, feeding on elk carcass in Lamar Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Tim Fitzharris / Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Cotton-top Cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus) detail, Death Valley National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

Konrad Wothe / Salt flats at Badwater with polygon shapes, Death Valley National Park, California

Doug Wechsler / Coyote yawning {Canis latrans} Death Valley NP, California, USA, North America. Sequence 2/2

Doug Wechsler / Coyote in desert {Canis latrans} Death Valley NP, Califronia, USA North America. ROSS

Gavin Hellier / Sand dunes in Death Valley NP, California, USA

Gavin Hellier / View from Zabriskie Point in Death Valley NP, California, USA

Gavin Hellier / Car driving along road in Death Valley NP, California, USA

Gavin Hellier / Panoramic view of sand dunes, Death Valley NP, California, USA

Gavin Hellier / Panoramic view of Zabriskie Point at sunrise, Death Valley NP, California, USA

Doug Wechsler / Coyote in desert {Canis latrans} Death Valley NP, USA North America

Tim Fitzharris / Desert Sunflower (Geraea canescens) flowers, Death Valley National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Racetrack Playa with mysterious 'sailing stones', Death Valley National Park, California

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Eroded sandstone ridges near Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Pattern of dry caked mud near Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley National Park, California

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Pattern of dry caked mud near Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley National Park, California

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Volcanic gray cinder deposits of Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley National Park, California

Kevin Schafer / Racetrack Playa with mysterious 'sailing stones', Death Valley, California

Vincent Grafhorst / Black-backed Jackal (Canis mesomelas) pair standing at Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) carcass, Lethiau Valley, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Colorful badlands, Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California

Jeff Foott / 1930s Talc mine, Warm Springs Canyon, Death Valley National Park California, USA