Gerry Ellis / Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) overhead view, native to the Central Desert, Western Australia

Tui De Roy / King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) group swimming underwater offshore from breeding colony, Macquarie Island, sub-Antarctica Australia

Tui De Roy / Royal Penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) group walking to colony past Macquarie Island Cabbage (Stilbocarpa polaris) both endemic to Macquarie Island, Australia

Mitsuaki Iwago / Australian Gannet (Morus serrator) nesting colony, Australia

Sean Crane / Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus) on coast, Coles Bay, Tasmania, Australia

Sean Crane / Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus) foraging, Cradle Mountain-Lake Saint Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia

D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) juvenile on rocks in river, Trowunna Wildlife Park, Tasmania, Australia

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Pine Processionary Moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) caterpillars looking for place to pupate, Northern Territory, Australia

Mark Moffett / Bulldog Ant (Myrmecia gulosa) workers rushing from nest mound and attacking camera, eastern Australia

Mitsuaki Iwago / Red Kangaroo (Macropus rufus) pair standing in field, Flinders Range National Park, Australia

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Ramsay's Python (Aspidites ramsayi) in the desert near Ayers Rock, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia

Mark Moffett / Central Bluetongue Skink (Tiliqua multifasciata) profile, Heathlands North of Perth, Australia