Gavin Hellier / View along the Corniche towards the new skyline of the West Bay central financial district of Doha, Qatar, Arabian Peninsula, 2011. No release available.

Gavin Hellier / Traffic lights and office buildings illuminated at dusk, part of new urban development, modern architecture skyscrapers in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany, 2007. As was the case in much of Berlin,...

Gavin Hellier / Luxury cruise liner infront of Midtown Manhattan across the Hudson River, New York, USA October 2011. No release available.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus) bathing, Auckland Islands. New Zealand. November.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Fiordland crested penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) in foamy waves, Vulnerable species, Westland, New Zealand, November

Danny Green / Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens) in flight, silhouetted against colourful dusk sky. Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, USA, November.

Danny Green / Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens), coming in to land. Bosque del Apache, New Mexico, USA, November.

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

Jeff Rotman / Northern Sea Stars (Asterias vulgaris) feeds on bed of mussels. Cathedral Rocks, Gloucester, Massachusetts, New England USA - North Atlantic Ocean.

Mark Carwardine / Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) in flight, Chatham Islands, off southern New Zealand

Mark Carwardine / Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) flying over sea, Chatham Islands, off southern New Zealand