Doug Gimesy / Volunteer field assistant recording data from an anaesthetised platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) as it starts to recover from the anesthetic. It was anaesthetised so a temporary radio transponder co...

Karine Aigner / Scientists Nathan Cooper and Stephen Caird play the call of a Kirtland's Warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii) to elicit a response from wild warblers. This is so they know where to set up a mist net to...

Karine Aigner / Scientist noting GPS points are noted so that field assistants can find Kirkland's warblers (Setophaga kirtlandii) using nano-transmitters data. Cat Island, Bahamas. April 2017.

Karine Aigner / Nathan Cooper and Stephen Caird play the call of a Kirtland's Warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii) to elicit a response from wild warblers. This is so they know where to set up a mist net to capture the...

Karine Aigner / Nathan Cooper and Stephen Caird play the call of a Kirtland's Warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii) to elicit a response from wild warblers. This is so they know where to set up a mist net to capture the...

Paul Williams / North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) with a maple syrup tapping tube. These tubes are used to carry sap to large tanks. Porcupines have learned to bite the tubes so that they can drink the li...

Paul Williams / North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) with a maple syrup tapping tube. These tubes are used to carry sap to large tanks. Porcupines have learned to bite the tubes so that they can drink the li...

Paul Williams / North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) with a maple syrup tapping tube. These tubes are used to carry sap to large tanks. Porcupines have learned to bite the tubes so that they can drink the li...

Jeff Rotman / Lobsterman holds American lobster (Homarus americanus) female carrying eggs on underside of tail, it is illegal to catch animal with eggs so this will be returned to the sea, Yarmouth, Casco Bay Maine...

Jeff Rotman / Eggs cover the underside of American lobster's tail (Homarus americanus) it is illegal to take lobsters with eggs so this animal will be returned to the sea, Portland, Maine, USA October. Model releas...

Jeff Rotman / Lobsterman holds American lobster (Homarus americanus) female carrying eggs on underside of tail, it is illegal to catch animal with eggs so this will be returned to the sea, Portland, Maine, USA Octo...

Juergen Freund / Reef rehabilitation. Divers attach wire mesh to this dynamited area so new coral spawn have a substrate to attach onto and grow from. Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, January 2010.

Tim Laman / Mahtab Gazi, a gunin or tiger shaman, upon first landing at each new site for searching for honey, goes on land first and casts a spell on any tigers in the area so that they can not harm the honey hu...

Tim Laman / Mahtab Gazi, a gunin or tiger shaman, upon first landing at each new site for searching for honey, goes on land first and casts a spell on any tigers in the area so that they can not harm the honey hu...

Tim Laman / Mahtab Gazi, a gunin or tiger shaman, upon first landing at each new site for searching for honey, goes on land first and casts a spell on any tigers in the area so that they can not harm the honey hu...

Tim Laman / Mahtab Gazi, a gunin or tiger shaman, upon first landing at each new site for searching for honey, goes on land first and casts a spell on any tigers in the area so that they can not harm the honey hu...

Mark Brownlow / Dave Manton, from the BBC filming crew for 'South pacific' beside helicopter, Papua New Guinea, August 2007. Dave is beside a cineflex HD gyrostablised mount used to film stabilised aerials of landsca...

Mark Moffett / Moose Fly (Phytalmia alcicornis) has antlers so large that they may hinder the ant's activities, Papua New Guinea

Mark Moffett / Moose Fly (Phytalmia alcicornis) has antlers so large that they may hinder the ant's activities, Papua New Guinea

Paul D Stewart / Pithecanthropus europeaus alalus (european speechless ape-man) by Gabriel Max, 1894, reproduced as Photogravure Plate 29 in Ernst Haeckel 'Naturliche Schopfungs-Geschichte' (Natural History of Creatio...

Paul D Stewart / 1698 illustration of William Dampier, naturalist, explorer and buccaneer (August 1651 - March 1715). A posthumous 1787 Copperplate engraving by Charles Sherwin after the 1698 painting by T. Murray. On...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of The British Museum in Montagu House, Great Russel (sic) Street. Engraved by William Henshall from a study by T.H. Shepherd. From Shepherd's series 'London and its Environs in the Ninet...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Gibbon (Hylobates lar), 1812 copperplate engraving of a 'lar or long armed ape' (gibbon) from Pantalogia New Cyclopedia, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster St. London. Few large...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of a mythical Brazillian animal by Albertus Montanus, 1673. Copperplate from the German edition of his Dutch 'The New World'. A strange creature being pursued by colonials in the jungles...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of Birds of Paradise (Paradisaea spp), woodcut from Merian and Jonston's 'Historia Naturalis' 1660 (which continued to be printed up to 1767). Shows a range of species including the blue...

Paul D Stewart / The frontis to Gideon Mantell's 1851 book, 'Petrifactions and their Teachings - a handbook to the gallery of organic remains at the British Museum'. The frontis engraving is of Notornis Mantelli - the...

Roberto Rinaldi / Crocodile Woman, scarification on women is seen as a symbol of beauty. The scars are made by rubbing ash into a wound so it becomes inflamed and heals as a raised scar, Karawari, Papua New Guinea, Oce...

Harry Collins / Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) shaking feathers whilst perched on tree branch. It lifts up one foot so that it stands on one leg, New Jersey, USA. March.

Doug Gimesy / Arborist Sam Hardingham plants the sticky seeds of Long-flowered mistletoe (Dendrophthoe vitellina) - which were collected the previous day - onto the high branches of a Spotted gum tree (Corymbia mac...

Tim Laman / Carola's Parotia (Parotia carolae) male displaying to an audience of two other males (black birds in front and back), and eight female-plumaged birds. Young males are indistinguishable from females,...

Theo Bosboom / Eruption of Geldingadalur Volcano in Iceland, seen through heat haze (NB: soft focus). The fissure opened about 700 meters from the original site of the eruption. The area was quickly evacuated by the...

Theo Bosboom / Workers from Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue (ICE-SAR) near recently opened volcanic fissure. Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue (ICE-SAR) ensured the area was evacuated so that s...

Edwin Giesbers / GaiaZOO European Hamster (Cricetus cricetus) Breeding Program: enclosure setup to determine if the hamsters are ready to mate. This is necessary because the wild population cannot survive on its own a...

Edwin Giesbers / GaiaZOO European Hamster (Cricetus cricetus) Breeding Program: enclosure setup to determine if the hamsters are ready to mate. This is necessary because the wild population cannot survive on its own a...

Edwin Giesbers / European hamsters (Cricetus cricetus) interacting through fenced enclosure setup to determine if the hamsters are ready to mate, part of a breeding program. This is necessary because the wild populati...

Jiri Lochman / Mitchell fan palm (Livistona eastonii) trees planted in woodland which had been burnt for pastoral purposes. Palm seedlings do not survive yearly fires so no new young palms grow into the woodland, Ki...