Ingo Arndt / Foot of Banded snail {Cepaea sp} viewed from below

MYN / Gil Wizen / Huge terrestrial flatworm (Bipalium kewense), Mindo, Ecuador, March. meetyourneighbours.net project

Pete Oxford / Bonaire whiptail lizard (Cnemidophorus murinus ruthveni) male, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean. Endemic to Bonaire and Klein Bonaire.

Alex Mustard / Eye and spiracle detail of a Bluespotted / Ribbontail Stingray (Taeniura lymma) Sipadan Island, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia. May

Mark Carwardine / Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) beside water, Endangered species, Mkhaya Game Reserve, Swaziland

Jeff Rotman / Close-up of the eye of a Jewel Grouper / Coral hind (Cephalopholis Miniata) Red Sea, Egypt

SINCLAIR STAMMERS / Fossil of a Trilobite (Olenellus / Olenellus gilberti Meek) from the Lower Cambrian period, Chisolm shale, Pioche formation, Half Moon mine, Pioche, Nevada, USA. Pete Lawrance collection

Stephen Dalton / Harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) close up, portrait

Thomas Mangelsen / Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) in autumn tundra landscape, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska

Shin Yoshino / Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) trio sitting on Cape Buffalo's (Syncerus caffer) head, Kenya

Shin Yoshino / Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) portrait, Australia

Tony Heald / Two male Ostriches running during dispute, Etosha NP, Namibia. Ostrich can run at speeds of 43mph - they are the fastest terrestrial birds.