Ben Osborne / Aerial view of African elephants (Loxodonta africana)moving through wetland in the Okavango delta, Northern Botswana, taken on location for BBC Planet Earth series, October 2005
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Ben Osborne / Aerial view of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) find shade under trees to avoid midday sun, during a drought. Northern Botswana. Taken on location for BBC Planet Earth series, October 2005
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Hiroya Minakuchi / Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) surfacing to breath, largest animal on earth, Sea Cortez, Baja California, Mexico
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Ben Osborne / African lions (Panthera leo) large pride rests in the late afternoon prior to heading out for a night hunt, Savuti, Northern Botswana. Taken on location for BBC Planet Earth series, 2005
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Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Heavy horses, UK, July 2008
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Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Heavy shire horses, UK, July 2008
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Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Suffolk Punch Heavy horses, UK, September 2008
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Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Suffolk Punch Heavy horses, UK, September 2008
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Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Heavy shire horses, UK, July 2008
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Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Heavy shire horses, UK, September 2008
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Ingo Arndt / Egyptian Locust (Anacridium aegyptium) first instars hatching from earth, Africa
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Dave Bevan / Sieving compost through one inch mesh to remove large lumps, UK, model released
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Igor Shpilenok / A hot spring in the Uzon Caldera spews out a large range of chemical elements that colour the earth, Kronotsky Zapovednik, Kamchatka, Far East Russia
Ian McCarthy / Giant petrels {Macronectes giganteus} feed on King penguin, Marion Is, sub-antarctica. (Taken on location for BBC Planet Earth Shallow Seas 2005).
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Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) young snake in water with duckweed, species is largest snake on earth and can reach 11 meters in length, native to tropical South America
Paul D Stewart / Mummified Ibis Head from Egypt (Ptolemaic period 305-30 B.C.) together with English translations of Cuvier's 'Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe' and one of his Ibis plates reproduced after 'Ossa...
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Paul D Stewart / 1674 Copperplate engraving depicting 'Creation of the birds, fishes and large marine life' (Genesis 1. 20-23 Day 5) under the Hebrew divine word of God. 'Let the waters bring forth abundantly the movi...
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John Cancalosi / Calcite (CaCO3), one of the most common and variable minerals on earth, used in building, metallugy, fertilizers, chemical industry, rhodochrosite, MnCO3, manganese carbonate, an ore of manganese when...