Miles Barton / Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus ziteki) reacting to the image of a frog on a video monitor. Experiment carried out to reveal the purpose of the frog's waving behaviour - to attract mates and deter ri...

Christian Ziegler / White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) with telemetry transmitter, this bird has been relocated from Washington to New Jersey to learn about bird migration, New Jersey

Christian Ziegler / White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) being fitted with telemetry transmitter, this bird has been relocated from Washington to New Jersey to learn about bird migration, New Jersey

Juergen Freund / Researcher Guido Westhoff's Faraday shield aiming to find out if sea snake tail has light receptors - using anesthesized Shaw's Sea Snake (Lapemis curtus) specimen. The faraday shield is used for shie...

Juergen Freund / Researcher Guido Westhoff using an anesthesized Shaw's Sea Snake (Lapemis curtus) to discover whether sea snake tails have light receptors. A Faraday shield is used for shielding off noise. The electr...

Juergen Freund / Guido Westhoff blowing air into anesthesized Shaw's Sea Snake (Lapemis curtus). He uses a Faraday shield to find out if sea snake tail has light receptors. The Faraday shield is used for shielding off...

Juergen Freund / Anesthesized Shaw's Sea Snake (Lapemis curtus). Researcher Guido Westhoff is tyring to detect whether there are light-sensitive regions on the snake's tail. Queensland, Australia, February 2008

Juergen Freund / Guido Westhoff with a Faraday shield. He uses this contraption to find out if sea snake tail has light receptors. The Faraday shield is used for shielding off noise. The electrodes and a light source...

Miles Barton / Filming Panamanian Golden Frog (Atelopus ziteki)reacting to the model of a waving frog. Experiment carried out to reveal the purpose of the frog's waving behaviour – to attract mates and deter rivals....

Miles Barton / Panamanian Golden Frog (Atelopus ziteki) reacting to the model of a waving frog. Experiment carried out to reveal the purpose of the frog's waving behaviour – to attract mates and deter rivals. Featur...

Jeff Rotman / A novel actinomycetes (bacterium known to produce antibiotics) isolated from marine biomass collected from oil-rig platform growing on an agar plate, Laboratory, Louisiana State University, Baton Roug...

Mark Moffett / Driver Ant (Dorylus sp) workers investigating a termite fungus garden presented to them in an experiment in Gashaka, Nigeria

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) larva taken out of honeycomb to be used for artificial breeding, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) being held with tweezers and marked with a brush for behavior observations, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with out-stretched tongue licking drop of sugar liquid, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) with a RFID-Chip on it's back, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany

Norbert Wu / Research divers conduct long-term experiment underwater, Antarctica

Norbert Wu / Research divers conduct long-term experiment underwater, Antarctica

Mark Moffett / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) accepts nectar sample from electronic bee in communication research experiment, Wurzburg, Germany

Mark Moffett / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) accepts nectar sample from electronic bee in communication research experiment, Wurzburg, Germany

Mark Moffett / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) accepts nectar sample from electronic bee in communication research experiment, Wurzburg, Germany

Christian Ziegler / White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) with telemetry transmitter, this bird has been relocated from Washington to New Jersey to learn about bird migration, New Jersey

Mark Moffett / Oil droplets, lit by lasers swirl in a wind tunnel around a flowering grass blade to study how pollen moved between plants on the wind, /n Berkeley, California

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) taped to husks to be conditioned to out-stretch tongue, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) returning to its hive, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) group around the entrance to their hive, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany

John Sparks / Effect of supernormal stimulus on gull chick - prefers pencil with many dots to one spot gull

Peter Kragh / Roboshark amongst Grey reef sharks at surface {Carcharhinus amblyrhynchus} Bikini Atoll

Erwan Quéméré / Replica of "Simon & Jude", a 30 foot catamaran built in England in 1662 by Sir William Petty. King Charles II persuaded him to rename it "The Experiment".