Christophe Courteau / Ostriches (Struthio camelus) running in the distance in a mirage, Sossusvlei, Namib-Nauckluft National Park, Namib Desert, Namibia.

Konrad Wothe / Fata Morgana, water mirage in the Libyan desert, Libya, North Africa, November 2007

Thomas Rabeil / Desert landscape seen from the air with solitary mountain rising from the sand. Termit Massif, Niger, Africa.

Charlie Summers / Backlit Gemsboks (Oryx gazella gazella) at sunrise approach Etosha pan waterhole, Namibia, Southern Africa

Tony Heald / Common zebra {Equus quagga} group on horizon through heat-haze. Namibia.

Karl Ammann / Silhouette of African elephants in heat haze {Loxodonta africana} Amboseli,

Claus Meyer / Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) pair, Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Christophe Courteau / Dead tree and sand dunes, Sossuvlei, Namib-Nauckluft National Park, Namibia.

Christophe Courteau / Gemsbok (Oryx gazella), Sossusvlei, Namib-Nauckluft National Park, Namibia.

Christophe Courteau / Dead trees with mirage, Sossusvlei, Namib-Nauckluft National Park, 2015.

Christophe Courteau / Dead trees with mirage, Sossusvlei, Namib-Nauckluft National Park, 2015.

Cyril Ruoso / Road with mirage, El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, Mexico