David Tipling / Barn Owl (Tyto alba) road kill with approaching car, UK, winter.

Markus Varesvuo / Dead Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator) hanging from barbed wire fence, Spain

Paul D Stewart / 1837 portrait of Gideon Mantell (3 February 1790 - 10 November 1852). Engraved from a painting by Samuel Stepney, later hand colouring. Published in G. Mantell's 'Thoughts on a Pebble' 1849. Gideon Ma...

Henley Spiers / Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) colony with several dead birds as a result of an outbreak of avian influenza (H5N1 or bird flu), Hermaness National Park, Shetland, UK, July 2022. The green fishing l...

Chris Gomersall / Corpse of dead Northern gannet (Morus bassanus), probable victim of avian influenza (bird flu). Braighe beach, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, UK. August 2022

Konrad Wothe / Man holding shot Cuscus (Phalangeridae), baby still alive in pouch. Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. 2019.

Graham Eaton / Broken dam wall of Llyn Eigiau, breached on 2nd November 1925 flooding the village of Dolgarrog and killing 16 people. Snowdonia National Park, Wales, UK. August 2019.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and chicks dead and frozen in ice after a snowstorm, Atka Bay, Antarctica. November. Bookplate.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) dead newly-hatched chick, Atka Bay, Antarctica. August. Bookplate.

Sergio Hanquet / North African hedgehog (Atelerix algirus) run over by car. Canary islands.

Sergio Hanquet / North African hedgehog (Atelerix algirus) run over by car. Canary islands.

Doug Gimesy / DELETE-HG SIMILAR ONLINE DELETE-BG - Brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) female was found dead on the side of the road. It had probably been hit by a car and someone had moved it off the ro...