Sam Hobson / Blood samples collected by scientists working with urban goshawks (Accipiter gentilis). Berlin, Germany, May 2014. Nominated in the Melvita Nature Images Awards competition 2014.

Jabruson / Hammer Headed bats (Hypsignathus monstrosus) in gloved hand - live mist net catch for blood sampling in search of the unknown reservoir host for Ebola virus. Ebola outbreaks in Mbomo in 2003 killed 12...

Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) in fish separator on board Shetland pelagic trawler 'Charisma', with crew member David Anderson taking a sample for measurement. Shetland Isles, Scotland, UK, Octo...

Solvin Zankl / Spines of sea urchins from sand sample from Raja Ampat, Indonesia, the wide range of colours of these animals become visible. Diagonal of frame approx. 5 mm Digital focus stacking image

Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / RSPB research ecologist Chloe Hardman using sweep net to sample invertebrate populations, RSPB Hope Farm reserve, Cambridgeshire, England, UK, May. Model released. 2020VISION Book Plate.

Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / RSPB research ecologist, Chloe Hardman, using sweep net to sample invertebrate populations at Hope Farm, Cambridgeshire, UK, May 2011, model released

John Cancalosi / Pyrite (FeS2, iron sulfide), known as 'Fool's Gold'. Formerly used in the production of sulfuric acid. Sample from Concepcion de Oro, Zacatecas State, Mexico.

John Cancalosi / Apatite (Ca5(PO4)3F, fluorapatite), used in the production of phosphate fertilizers and the production of salts of phosphoric acid and phosporous, a common mineral. Sample from Slyudyanka, Baikal regi...

John Cancalosi / Staurolite (iron aluminum silicate hydroxide), always crystallized often with two indivuals intergrown at right angles forming a cross. Sometimes used as amulets or ornaments. A fairly common metamorh...

Jurgen Freund / Jo Browne and Kade Mills use a cylinder cone shaped plankton net to sample gelatinous zooplankton for Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. Not released

Doug Gimesy / Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) blood taken from an anaesthetised platypus captured in field. It will be put into a test tube for later analysis. Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia. May 2018.

Doug Gimesy / Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) researcher taking cheek pouch samples from an anaesthetized platypus that was captured earlier from in the Snowy River, Dalgety, NSW, Australia. Dalgety, NSW, Austr...