Ashley Cooper / Old Polar Bear trap at Texas Bar in Liefdefjorden on northern Spitzebergen, Svalbard, Norway. The trap would be baited with the bait attached to a string that ran to a rifle trigger, when the bear pu...

Ashley Cooper / The Riverdance washed ashore off Blackpool, one of 3 ships lost that day off the UK. This ship was hit by a huge wave that shifted the vehicle cargo on the decks causing the ship to list violently. T...

Ashley Cooper / Dead and dying Almond trees in Almond groves in Wasco in the Central Valley of California after the irrigation water ran out following the four year long drought in the Western USA. 80% of the world's...

Ashley Cooper / Dead and dying Almond trees in Almond groves in Wasco in the Central Valley of California after the irrigation water ran out following the four year long drought in the Western USA. 80% of the world's...

Nick Upton / Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) with scorch mark from a recent lighting strike leaving a vertical scar in the bark where electrical currrent ran to earth down the tree, Cambridge, UK, July.

Nick Upton / Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) with vertical scar in the bark from a recent lighting strike, where electrical currrent ran to earth down the tree, Cambridge, UK, July.

Michael Pitts / Wreck of the ''Bayard'', ran aground in 1911. Ocean Harbour - South Georgia

Michael Pitts / Wreck of the 'Bayard', ran aground in 1911. Ocean Harbour - South Georgia

Cyril Ruoso / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) ran down 4000 volt charged electric fence, Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary, Kenya

Rick Tomlinson / "Ran" during Coastal Race 1 of the Rolex Maxi Cup, Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy. 7 September 2009.

Rick Tomlinson / Aboard "Ran" during the Rolex Maxi Cup, Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy. September 2009.

Rick Tomlinson / "Ran", first overall IRC-1, during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 4, 8th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 2, 6th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 2, 6th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 3, 7th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 4, 8th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 4, 8th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" at the windward mark during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 3, 7th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 4, 8th March.

Rick Tomlinson / IRC Class 1 start, "Rio" and "Ran", during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 2, 6th March.

Rick Tomlinson / "Ran", first overall IRC-1, during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 4, 8th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 2, 6th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 2, 6th March.

Rick Tomlinson / Spinnaker drop on TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 4, 8th March.

Rick Tomlinson / TP52 "Ran" during a race at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day one, 5th March.

Rick Tomlinson / IRC1 race start with "Ran" and "Rio" at the 2009 Acura Miami Grand Prix, day 4, 8th March.

Lisa Hoffner / Where water once ran: Aerial of erosion that scars the land near a Samburu manyatta in drought stricken Northern Kenya. August 2009.

Konstantin Mikhailov / The skull of Tarbosaurus dinosaur from Upper Cretaceous period of Mongolia, Paleontological Institue RAN, Moscow, Russia

Konstantin Mikhailov / The skull of Tarbosaurus dinosaur from Upper Cretaceous period of Mongolia, Paleonotlogical Institue RAN, Moscow

Konstantin Mikhailov / The skull of Tarbosaurus dinosaur from Upper Cretaceous period of Mongolia, Paleonotlogical Institue RAN, Moscow, Russia

Konstantin Mikhailov / The skull of Tarbosaurus dinosaur from Upper Cretaceous period of Gobi desert, Mongolia, Paleontological Institute RAN, Moscow

Cyril Ruoso / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) ran down 4000 volt charged electric fence, Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary, Kenya

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from Harpers Weekly, August 14th 1869 'Palaeozoic Museum, showing the rehabilitated forms of ancient animal life in america now being constructed in Central Park'. Wood cut from Benjamin...

Paul D Stewart / Falklands Wolf (Dusicyon australis). 1778 'The Wolf Fox of Faulklands Islands', a copperplate engraving from Commodore Byron's 'An account of a Voyage Round the World'. The Falkland Islands Wolf, Dusi...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of War Elephant (Elephas maximus), 1552, The Cosmographia, Book V, by Sebastian Munster (the early latin edition from the Basel printing house of Sebastian Heinrich Petri). Woodcut plate...

Rick Tomlinson / Team "EF Language" competing in the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1997-98. ^^^ The team raced on to become overall winners of the race and were the first team to receive the Volvo Trophy - Volvo...

Rick Tomlinson / Team "EF Language" competing in the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1997-98. ^^^ The team raced on to become overall winners of the race and were the first team to receive the Volvo Trophy - Volvo...