Willem Kolvoort / Ten-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) with a cyclops in a aquarium, the Netherlands. February.

Paul D Stewart / Skull of an Asian elephant (without its tusks) showing how the high nasal orifice for the trunk gives the impression of a single large eye socket. There is evidence that fossil elephant skulls (prehis...

Stephen Dalton / Mosquito (Culicidae) larva surrounded by algae and a cyclops. UK, November.

Stephen Dalton / Cyclops (Copepoda) female carrying two parcels of eggs. UK, November.

Kim Taylor / Freshwater copepod {Cyclops sp.} female with eggs. UK.

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration from Sebastian Munster's 1552 'Cosmographia' published by S.H. Petri in Basel, depicting ficticious people thought to live in India beyond the Ganges. He follows Pliny in describi...

Kim Taylor / Two Freshwater copepods (Cyclops sp) swimming through pond debris, Surrey, UK, May.