Michael D. Kern / Kaleidoscope pattern formed from picture of Greenbottle blue tarantula (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens) - see original image number 01482830 EMBARGOED FOR NAT GEO UNTIL the end of 2015

Wild Wonders of Europe / Hermansen / Northern gannets (Morus bassanus) colony, Saltee Islands, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, June 2009

Peter Cairns / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) sitting on snow covered tree stump, Glenfeshie, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, February 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Sá / Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) large male of 2.5 m length. Localy identified by Parque Natural da Madeira as "Metade". Areias, Deserta Grande, Desertas Islands, Madeira, Portugal, August...

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgre / Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) with a shoal of Pilot fish (Naucrates ductor) Pico, Azores, Portugal, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Hamblin / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stags and hinds on the move, Oostvaardersplassen, Netherlands, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Shpilenok / Two Steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis) chicks in their nest. Cherniye Zemli (Black Earth) Nature Reserve, Kalmykia, Russia, May 2009 Wild Wonders kids book.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Krahmer / Mountain landscape, Lac Blanc with Aiguilles de Chamonix at sunset, Haute Savoie, France, September 2008

Wild Wonders of Europe / López / Cotton grass (Eriophorum) growing in wetland bog at sunset, Kemeri National Park, Latvia, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / Unterthiner / Two European bison (Bison bonasus) fighting, Bialowieza NP, Poland, February 2009. WWE INDOOR EXHIBITION.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Oxford / Wild Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) female emerging from undergrowth, Sierra de Andjar Natural Park, Mediterranean woodland of Sierra Morena, north east Jan Province, Andalusia, Spain, April 2009, Criti...

Wild Wonders of Europe / E. Haar / Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) running through snow, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy, November 2008