Tui De Roy / Red-footed booby (Sula sula), pair looking in same direction whilst perched in tree. Genovesa Island, Galapagos.

Mary McDonald / Purple-bibbed whitetip hummingbird (Urosticte benjamini) flying, Choco Cloud Forest, Ecuador. April.

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) female calf mimicking her mother, visible in the background. The adult female had the habit of resting with her fluke at the surface. Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga....

Konrad Wothe / Army ants (Eciton burcellii) Panguana Reserve, Huanuco province, Amazon basin, Peru.

Espen Bergersen / Three Killer whales (Orcinus orca) spyhopping in a row. Kvalnes, Andoya, Nordland, Northern Norway, December.

Roland Seitre / Coyote (Canis latrans) female and juvenile howling. Captive, occurs in North and Central America.

Alex Mustard / The statue of Christ Of The Abyss (Cristo degli abissi) in the Marine Protected Area of Portofino (Area Marina Protetta, Portofino), Liguria, Italy. Mediterranean Sea. This was the world's first under...

Roland Seitre / Coyote (Canis latrans) female and juvenile howling. Captive, occurs in North and Central America.

Paul D Stewart / Portait of Albertus Seba, the Dutch pharmacist and collector of natural rarities, age 66 (b. May 12th 1665 - d. May 2nd 1736). Portrait with tinting, showing off rarities from his collection acquired...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of mythical creature with early colouring from Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' 1557. Publ. Christof Froshover, Zurich. Gesner takes this image from Breidenbach's 'Journey to the Holy Land'...

Paul D Stewart / Copy of the first edition 'On the Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin (1859) together with a Cabinet photograph of Darwin and some other Darwin related books. 'The Origin' was first published on Thur...

David Pattyn / Pair of Great crested grebes (Podiceps cristatus) mimicking each others movements during courtship dance, The Netherlands, Europe. March.