Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Sulphurous jewel beetle (Julodis euphratica) male attempting to mate with female, the wrong way around, April, Oman

Ernie Janes / Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) landing on Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) Gulf Coast, Florida, USA, March

Ernie Janes / Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) landing on Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) Gulf Coast, Florida, USA, March.

Fiona Rogers / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) baby submerged in a thermal hotspring pool. Jigokudani Yean-Koen National Park, Japan, February.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Female Yunnan Snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) feeding, Tacheng Yunnan snub-nosed monkey National Park, Yunnan, China.

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) young male 'Jeje' aged 13 years disciplining juvenile female 'Joya' aged 6 years and infant male 'Flanle' aged 3 years who are playing together, Bossou For...

Paul D Stewart / Coloured lithograph of plesiosaur and ichthyosaur, a contemporary continental version of the wall chart by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins entitled 'Waterhouse Hawkins Diagrams of the Extinct Animals'. He...

Paul D Stewart / Photographic portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892). Woodburytype photograph by Lock & Whitfield published in 'Men or Mark' 1878. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologi...

Paul D Stewart / Vivid colour illustrated lithograph for 'Dr. Schubert's Naturgeschichte - Geologie, Mineralreich, Palaontologie'. Published in Stuttgart by J.F. Shreiber, the palaeontology section by Dr. Friedrich Ro...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892), 1889 mezzotint by H.J. Thaddeus with contemporary face but pose taken from an earlier 1852 photograph with dinosaur. Owen was a comparative...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Richard Owen (20, July 1804 - 18 December 1892), 1894 engraving from an 1840s painting by Pickersgill, later hand colouring. Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. He coined...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Horn of the Iguanodon' (3) and 'The Claw or unguical bone of an Iguanodon' (1) with, for comparison 'The Nail and the bone which it covered of a recent Iguana' (2, 3). Drawn and litho...