Will Burrard-Lucas / Young male melanistic leopard (Panthera pardus), Laikipia Wilderness Camp, Kenya. Photographed with a camera trap. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. All other uses require clearance

Will Burrard-Lucas / Young male melanistic leopard (Panthera pardus), Laikipia Wilderness Camp, Kenya. Photographed with a camera trap. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. All other uses require clearance

Will Burrard-Lucas / Young male melanistic leopard (Panthera pardus), Laikipia Wilderness Camp, Kenya. Photographed with a camera trap. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. All other uses require clearance

Will Burrard-Lucas / Young male melanistic leopard (Panthera pardus), Laikipia Wilderness Camp, Kenya. Photographed with a camera trap.

Bence Mate / Fallow deer (Dama dama) at night, Gyulaj, Hungary Third place in the Nature Portfolio category of the World Press Photo Awards 2017.

Bence Mate / Fallow deer (Dama dama) at night, Gyulaj, Hungary Third place in the Nature Portfolio category of the World Press Photo Awards 2017.

Cyril Ruoso / View of Komdodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) from nest, Rinca Island, Komodo National Park, Indonesia. Non-ex

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Giant Octopus (Octopus dofleini) attacking a ship, 1815 copperplate engraving from Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch fur kinder' 16 plate 5. with contemporary colour. 'Colosal Polypus' (octopus) a...

Lucas Bustamante / Juvenile of Amazon Tree-Boa (Corallus hortulanus) in defensive position. Yasuni National Park, Orellana, Ecuador.

Paul D Stewart / Copperplate engraving of great sea monster reported by Hans Egede in 1735. From The Naturalist's Library by Sir William Jardine. This monster or was reportedly spotted off the coast of Greenland, and...

Paul D Stewart / Lupus Marina - a sea wolf - Folio Copper Plate, later hand coloured. Published 1657-65 Amsterdam, for Historiae Naturalis by John Jonston. Illustrated by Caspar and Matthias Merian. These creatures ar...

Dong Lei / Figure of a dragon on the wall of a temple, Jiajinshan Mountain, Maerkang county, Sichuan Province, China.