Franco Banfi / Detail of magnificent Sea anemone (Heteractis magnifica) Maldives, Indian Ocean

Linda Pitkin / 2020VISION / Tube worms (Bispira volutacornis) living between rocks covered in Crustose coralline (Corallinaceae) and red algae (Rhodophyceae), Lundy Island Marine Conservation Zone, Devon, England, UK, May.

Linda Pitkin / 2020VISION / Sunset cup coral / Yellow cave coral (Leptopsammia pruvoti), on sponge covered rock face, Lundy Island Marine Conservation Zone, Devon, England, UK, May

Alex Hyde / Velvet Worm (Peripatus novaezealandiae) silhouetted against a leaf, known as 'living fossils', having remained the same for approximately 570 million years, New Zealand, Captive

Alex Hyde / Velvet Worm (Peripatus novaezealandiae) known as 'living fossils', having remained the same for approximately 570 million years, New Zealand, Captive

David Shale / Solenosmilia sp and eunicid polychaete and bamboo coral. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.

David Tipling / 2020VISION / Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) foraging for tidal-flat worm. Norfolk, January. Sequence 2 of 2.

Alex Mustard / Planktonic sea walnut ctenophore (Mnemiopsis mccradyi) in open water, Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.

Mike Wilkes / Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) probing for worms, Warwickshire, UK, February

Alex Mustard / A diver exploring a coral reef with formation of brown tube sponges (Agelas conifera) red rope sponges (Amphimedon compressa) and deepwater sea fans (Iciligorgia nodulifera) East End, Grand Cayman, Ca...

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Phosphorescent Seapen (Pennatula phosphorea) extends out of the muddy seabed in the calm waters of the upper reaches of a Scottish sea loch. Loch Duich, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, UK, April

Ernie Janes / Bait diggers on The Wash at lowtide, Norfolk, UK, August