Ingo Arndt / "CTD" (instrument for collecting water samples from all water depths) at work 50 km from the ice floe base. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute; Bremerhav...

Ingo Arndt / Researcher Gerhard Dieckmann checking samples from sediment trap. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. The Icebreaker Polarstern was...

Ingo Arndt / Samples from sediment trap. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. The Icebreaker Polarstern was drifting for five weeks with an ice f...

Suzi Eszterhas / Pygmy Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) biologist, Rebecca Cliffe, taking hair samples, Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama

Sam Hobson / Scientists collecting samples, including cloaca swabs, from urban goshawks (Accipiter gentilis). Berlin, Germany. May 2014. Nominated in the Melvita Nature Images Awards competition 2014.

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...

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / School children carrying equipment to release salmon fry in the River Haddeo and to do invertebrate kick samples with Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) warden. Bury, Exmoor National Park, Somerset, UK. M...

Ross Hoddinott / 2020VISION / School child releases salmon fry in the River Haddeo, with Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) warden. Bury, Exmoor National Park, Somerset, UK. May 2012. Editorial use only

Pete Oxford / Female Jaguar (Panthera onca) under anesthetic, having teeth measured as part of the collection of biometric data and physiological samples for a relocation project, captive, Fundacion Santa Martha Ce...

Ingo Arndt / Two scientists from the Alfred-Wegener Institute, collecting tide pool samples, North sea, Helogland, Germany

Mark Moffett / Meg Lowman strides across a canopy raft to collect insect samples with her net as Bruce Rinker inspects the previous catch, Cameroon