Markus Varesvuo / Grey Partridge (Grey Partridge) buried in thick snow, Liminka, Finland, February 2004

Roy Mangersnes / Brunnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) in flight low over sea, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, June.

Roy Mangersnes / Brunnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) diving into sea, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, July.

Roy Mangersnes / Brunnich's guillemots (Uria lomvia) on sea, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, July.

Roy Mangersnes / Brunnich's guillemots (Uria lomvia) on sea, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, July.

Olga Kamenskaya / Car on thick Lake Baikal ice, Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, March. Property released.

Dong Lei / Jungle Crow (Corvus macrorhynchos) perched on tree branch with rainbow, Shejila mountain, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Tibet, China. July.

Alan Murphy / Brunnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia) flying, Alaska

Ann & Steve Toon / Black hairy thicktailed scorpion (Parabuthus villosus), Namib Desert, Namibia, April

Chris Mattison / Marico Gecko (Pachydactylus mariquensis latirostris). Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa.

Chris Mattison / Marico Thick-toed Gecko (Pachydactylus mariquensis latirostris). Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa.

Piotr Naskrecki / Thick-tailed Scorpion (Tityus sp) under ultraviolet light, Suriname