Charlie Summers,Charlie Summers / Jupiter and the Moon in conjunction, on the night of 21 January 2013.

Tui De Roy / Feral chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) cock, these have reverted to ancestral type nearly identical to Red jungle fowl. Galapagos

Tui De Roy / Feral chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) hen and chicks, these have reverted to ancestral type nearly identical to Red jungle fowl. Galapagos

Tui De Roy / Feral chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) hen and chick, these have reverted to ancestral type nearly identical to Red jungle fowl. Galapagos

Tui De Roy / Feral chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) hen and chicks, these have reverted to ancestral type nearly identical to Red jungle fowl. Galapagos

Tui De Roy / Feral chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) hen and chick, these have reverted to ancestral type nearly identical to Red jungle fowl. Galapagos

Tui De Roy / Feral chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) hen and chicks, these have reverted to ancestral type nearly identical to Red jungle fowl. Galapagos

David Woodfall / Buff tailed bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) some numbered for research purposes in captive nest. Queen Mary University, London, England, UK, September 2014.

David Woodfall / Buff tailed bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) some numbered for research purposes in captive nest. Queen Mary University, London, England, UK, September 2014.

David Woodfall / Radar designed to track bees and monitor flight around important food plants by Dr Stephan Wolf of Queens Mary College London. Research done at Rothampsted Agricultural Research station, Hertfordshire...

David Woodfall / Buff tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) feeding on sugar solution, during experiment by Dr Stephan Wolf into flight behaviour of drones. Queen Mary University, London, England, UK, September 2014.

David Woodfall / Solitary Bees, wasp mimicking species, Oxford Natural History museum, Oxford, UK.

David Woodfall / Solitary Bees, wasp mimicking species, Oxford Natural History museum, Oxford, UK.

David Woodfall / Collection of pinned bees caught for research and identification Cowley, Oxford, UK, September 2014.

David Woodfall / Scientist Ivan Wright with sample of pinned bees caught during research, Cowley, Oxford, UK, September 2014.

David Woodfall / Scientist Ivan Wright collecting insects from net during researche, Cowley, Oxford, UK

David Woodfall / Scientist Ivan Wright, looking at Red tailed bumble bee (Bombus lapidartius) in test tube whilst carrying out research. Cowley, Oxford, UK September 2014.

Alex Hyde / Scientist using plankton net to survey marine fauna. Isle of Mull, Scotland, UK, June.

Ann & Steve Toon / Laurence Simmen (conservator for natural history, left) and Richard Sutcliffe (research manager, natural sciences) at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, collecting black rhino horn sample for DNA analys...

Ann & Steve Toon / Laurence Simmen (conservator for natural history, left) and Richard Sutcliffe (research manager, natural sciences) at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, using a drill to collect black rhinoceros (Dicero...

Ann & Steve Toon / Laurence Simmen (conservator for natural history, left) and Richard Sutcliffe (research manager, natural sciences) at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, using a drill to collect black rhinoceros (Dicero...

Tui De Roy / Okarito Brown Kiwi (Apteryx rowi) detail of flightless wing structure. Okarito Forest, Westland, South Island, New Zealand.

Nick Upton / Mammalogist Gill Brown inspecting nest box set out for Common / Hazel dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius), in coppiced woodland near Bristol, Somerset, UK, October. Model released. Winner of the Doc...

Will Watson / Freshwater ecologists dip netting a pond, Bishon Meadow SSSI, November 2013, Herefordshire, England.

Daniel Heuclin / King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) in strike pose with mouth open, tongue out and glottis (hole like structure in mouth) clearly visible. Malaysia

Daniel Heuclin / King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) in strike pose with mouth open and glottis (hole like structure in mouth) clearly visible. Malaysia

Paul D Stewart / 1881 portrait of Charles Robert Darwin ( 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882), English Naturalist and author of the Origin of Species. 1922 Hand coloured portrait aquatint of Darwin by G. Sidney Hunt aft...

Paul D Stewart / Sir Joseph Banks, botanist and naturalist. (13th February 1743 - 19th June 1820). Engraving by C.E. Wagstaff with later colouring, after the painting of Banks as President of the Royal Society by Phil...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Elephant nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) head portrait, Medicine Park Aquarium and Natural Sciences Center. Captive, occurs in Africa.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Elephant nose fish (Gnathonemus petersii) portrait, Medicine Park Aquarium and Natural Sciences Center. Captive, occurs in Africa.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Six Glass catfish (Kryptopterus bicirrhis) portrait, Medicine Park Aquarium and Natural Sciences Center. Captive, occurs in Southeast Asia.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Seven Glass catfish (Kryptopterus bicirrhis) portrait, Medicine Park Aquarium and Natural Sciences Center. Captive, occurs in Southeast Asia.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Four Glass catfish (Kryptopterus bicirrhis) portrait, Medicine Park Aquarium and Natural Sciences Center. Captive, occurs in Southeast Asia.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Sunburst peacock cichlid (Aulonocara sp.) portrait, Medicine Park Aquarium and Natural Sciences Center. Captive, occurs in Lake Malawi.

Shane Gross / Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) in seagrass bed. Researcher from CORE (Centre for Ocean Research and Education) Sciences diving in background, amongst exclusion cages on sea floor to monitor the eff...