Alex Mustard / A diver explores Silfra Canyon, a deep fault filled with fresh water in the rift valley between the Eurasian and American tectonic plates at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. May 2011. In this phot...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) mature male 'Doyok' sitting on bench made for tourists - wide angle perspective. Pondok Tanggui, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, In...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) baby aged 2-3 months belonging to Tata not yet named. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010. Rehabilita...

Franco Banfi / Freshwater fish including Cichlid between water plants and leaves. Cenote Nicte-Ha, near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

Franco Banfi / Freshwater fish including Mayan cichlids (Mayaheros urophthalmus) between aquatic plants and leaves, Cenote Nicte-Ha, near Tulum, Quintana Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. MontPhoto Competition 2023 -...

Christophe Courteau / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) silverback sitting on boundary wall between Volcanoes National Park and a Potato crop, looking into valley. Area to be restored to forest. Rwanda.

Giri Cavale / Melanistic leopard / Black panther (Panthera pardus) on territorial patrol on track, Nagarahole National Park, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Karnataka, India.

David Fleetham / Porcelain crab (Porcellanella picta) hiding between the blades of the Seapen (Pteroeides sp). Komodo, Indonesia.

Franco Banfi / Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) socialising with free diver stopped between two individuals, Dominica, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, January, Vulnerable species. Model released.

Terry Whittaker / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) leaping between Scots pine tree (Pinus sylvestris)s, lands on camera, Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, February.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Pine marten (Martes martes) feeding, balanced between two logs, Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Lochaber, Scotland, UK, June.

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female 'Princess' walking along a trail carrying her daughter 'Putri' aged 2 years on her back. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female 'Tata' and her unnamed baby aged 2-3 months portrait. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010. Reh...

Ingo Arndt / View of Badlands National Park, with shadows cast between mountain peaks, and sediment layers visible, South Dakota, USA. September 2009.

Ingo Arndt / View of Badlands National Park, with shadows cast between mountain peaks, and sediment layers visible, South Dakota, USA. September 2009.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) leaping between tree stumps, Cairngorms National Park, Highlands, Scotland, UK. Sequence 1 of 3.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) leaping between tree stumps, Cairngorms National Park, Highlands, Scotland, UK. Sequence 2 of 3.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) leaping between tree stumps, Cairngorms National Park, Highlands, Scotland, UK. Sequence 3 of 3.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Silhouetted Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) jumping between tree stumps. Cairngorms National Park, Highlands, Scotland, UK, August.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) leaping between pine trees in forest in late afternoon light, Cairngorms National Park, Highlands, Scotland, UK, April.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red Squirrel (sciurus vulgaris) leaping between tree stumps, backlit in morning light .Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, March.

Bernard Castelein / Puna / James flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) taking off from Laguna Hedionda, between Polques and Quetena, altiplano, Bolivia September

Ingo Arndt / Land snail / Brown-lipped snail (Cepaea nemoralis) crawling over a razor blade. The constantly produced mucus is a protection shield between the sole of the snail and the razor blade whilst the snail...

Christophe Courteau / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) swimming across Chobe River, trunks raised above surface for breathing, Chobe National Park, border between Botswana and Namibia.

Neil Aldridge / African skimmer (Rynchops flavirostris) resting on a sandbank in the middle of the Chobe River between Botswana and Namibia.

Paul D Stewart / Photographic reconstruction of Archaeopteryx by Paul D. Stewart. The fossils of this species was from 150 million years ago, and is thought of as a stage between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds.

Anup Shah / Eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurtheii) female 'Gremlin' aged 41 years grooms her daughter 'Golden' aged 14 years while their infants 'Gizmo' aged 3 years and 'Glamma' aged 9 months sit b...

Pete Oxford / Clouds between tepuis, Mount Roraima, Pacaraima Mountains, Guyana

Matthias Breiter / Ferry moving between icebergs, Ilulissat, Greenland

Inaki Relanzon / Animal petroglyphs between 5,000-15,000 years old years ago, Khavtsgait Petroglyph Mountain, Gobi desert, Govi Gurvan Saikhan National Park, South Mongolia. June 2015.

Wim van den Heever / Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) baby jumping between branches, photographed mid air. Okavango Delta Botswana.

Sven Zacek / Aerial view of Rver Koiva, and the border between Estonia and Latvia in Southern Estonia, Valgamaa, Estonia. August 2014. Estonia is on the left side of the river and Latvia on the right bank.

Juergen Freund / Man moving Grouper fish between fish pens, Tampakan, Kudat, Sabah, Borneo. June 2009. Second Place in the Portfolio Award of the Terre Sauvage Nature Images Awards Competition 2015.

Bence Mate / Two Great egrets (Ardea alba) standing opposite each other with Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) in between. Lake Csaj, Pusztaszer, Hungary, January. Winner of the Portfolio category of the Terre Sauvage Na...

Colin Varndell / Harvest mouse (Micromus minutus) climbing between ripe Wheat, Dorset, UK, July.

Claudio Contreras / Canal between chinampas, a wetland agricultural system, at dawn, Xochimilco wetlands, Mexico City, November

Claudio Contreras / Boat on canal between chinampas, a wetland agricultural system. Xochimilco wetlands, Mexico City, September

Paul Williams / View from plane of landscape between Alice Springs and Perth, Australia, November.

David Pattyn / Coot (Fulica Atra) female feeding its chick in between vegetation. The Netherlands. June 2014

Anup Shah / Tana mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus) mother grooms her baby of between -3 months old watched by a juvenile. Tana River Forest, South eastern Kenya.

Markus Varesvuo / Female Bearded tit / reedling (Panurus biarmicus) flying between reeds, Espoo, Finland. February. Magic Moments book plate.

Nick Garbutt / Adult male Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema) 'skipping / dancing' across open ground between forest fragments, eastern Madagascar.

D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) grinding prey between plates of its bill, Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia

David Pattyn / Razorbill (Alca torda) pair calling, between soft focus vegetation. Great Saltee, Saltee Islands, Co. Wexford, Republic of Ireland, June.

Anup Shah / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd at waterhole with calves seen between adults legs. Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Taken with remote wide angle camera.

Fiona Rogers / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) female 'Sandra' aged 22 years portrait. Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Apr 2012. Rehabilitated and released (or descended from those which were rele...

Fiona Rogers / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) female 'Pesec' aged 28 years portrait. Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Apr 2012. Rehabilitated and released (or descended from those which were relea...

Fiona Rogers / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) mature male 'Halik' aged 26 years lying down - portrait. Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Apr 2012. Rehabilitated and released (or descended from thos...

John Waters / Walkers strolling along the bank between in flooded Aller Moor, with mistletoe laden apple tree, near Burrowbridge, Somerset Levels, Somerset, UK. January 2014

Anup Shah / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) female 'Jaki' aged 16 years with baby daughter 'Jodi' aged 2-3 years - portrait. Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Rehabilitated and released (or desce...

Anup Shah / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) female 'Juni' aged 12 years swinging from a liana. Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Rehabilitated and released (or descended from those which were rel...

Anup Shah / Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) mature male 'Halik' aged 26 years sitting in a forest clearing watched from a tree by female 'Juni' aged 12 years. Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. Re...

Alex Mustard,Alex Mustard / Pair of divers floating in Silfra Canyon, a deep fault filled with fresh water in the rift valley between the Eurasian and American tectonic plates) at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. May 2011. I...

Alex Mustard / The narrow Nes Canyon, a fault filled with fresh water in the rift valley between the Eurasian and American tectonic plates in northern Iceland. May 2011.

Alex Mustard,Alex Mustard / A view down Nikulasargj Canyon, deep fault filled with fresh water in the rift valley between the Eurasian and American tectonic plates at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. May 2011. In this photo t...

Alex Mustard / Diver explores the cathedral at Silfra Canyon, deep fault filled with fresh water in the rift valley between the Eurasian and American tectonic plates, at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. May 2011....

Alex Mustard / A diver explores Nikulasargj Canyona deep fault filled with fresh water in the rift valley between the Eurasian and American tectonic plates at Thingvellir National Park, Iceland. May 2011. In this ph...

Franco Banfi / Scuba diver under and between ice formations, Lake Sassolo, Sambuco valley, Ticino, Switzerland. Model released.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Eastern hoolock gibbon (Hoolock leuconedys) hanging from a branch in its arms, resting between forays through the rainforest, Gaoligongshan Nature reserve, Yunnan, China

Juergen Freund / Men on a fishing device called ?Bagan?, a stationary outrigger boat, with a net between outriggers and strong light at night to attract anchovies and scad. Cenderawasih Bay, Papua Province, Indonesia,...

Juergen Freund / Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) near a fishing device called ?Bagan?, a stationary outrigger boat, with a net between outriggers and strong light at night to attract anchovies and scad. The whale sharks...

Linda Pitkin / 2020VISION / Tube worms (Bispira volutacornis) living between rocks covered in Crustose coralline (Corallinaceae) and red algae (Rhodophyceae), Lundy Island Marine Conservation Zone, Devon, England, UK, May.

Christophe Courteau / Fighting between a pack of 21 African Wild Dogs {Lycaon pictus} and the dominant female of a clan of Spotted Hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) Northern Okavango Delta, Botswana

Christophe Courteau / Fighting between a pack of 21 African Wild Dogs {Lycaon pictus} and the dominant female of a clan of Spotted Hyaenas (Crocuta crocuta) Northern Okavango Delta, Botswana

Paul D Stewart / Photomontage of living gecko feet showing a variety of forms. Gecko feet employ very small subdivided filaments to bond with their substrates at the molecular level using Van Der Waals' forces. Every...

Tui De Roy / Short-eared owl (Asio flameus galapagoensis) looking between branches, portrait, Galapagos islands

Sandra Bartocha / European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees, with sunlight shining between branches, Germany, September

Michael D. Kern / Yellow Headed Day Gecko (Phelsuma klemmeri) between leaves captive from Madagascar

Michel Poinsignon / Praying mantis (Mantis religiosa) female, clinging between two twigs, Lorraine, France, October.

Michel Poinsignon / River view between Leon pond and Atlantic ocean, Courant D'Huchet Landes, France, August 2010.

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female baby 'Putri' aged 2 years riding on her mother's back reaching out with curiosity. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Born...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female 'Unyuk' carrying her daughter 'Ursula' aged 4 years on her back. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. Jun...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) male baby 'Thor' aged 8-9 months peering from behind his mother. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010....

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) male baby 'Thor' aged 8-9 months swinging from a liana. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. July 2010. Rehabili...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) male baby 'Thor' aged 8-9 months hanging from his mother. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. July 2010. Rehabi...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female baby 'Petra', age 12 months. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. July 2010. Rehabilitated and released (...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female baby 'Petra' aged 12 months. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. July 2010. Rehabilitated and released (...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female 'Tutut' scratching throat. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. July 2010. Rehabilitated and released (or...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) male baby 'Thor', age 8-9 months playing with a leaf. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. July 2010. Rehabilita...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female 'Unyuk' cuddling her daughter 'Ursula', age 4 years. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010. Reha...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) mature male 'Tom' close-up portrait showing cheek pad eyes and nose. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female 'Tutut' head portrait. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. July 2010. Rehabilitated and released (or des...

Anup Shah / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) mature male 'Doyok' portrait. Pondok Tanggui, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010. Rehabilitated and released (or...

Fiona Rogers / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)female 'Unyuk' and her daughter 'Ursula' aged 4 years. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010. Rehabilita...

Fiona Rogers / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female 'Tutut' resting her head on her hand. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. July 2010. Rehabilitated and r...

Fiona Rogers / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) age 3-6 months being groomed by it's mother 'Gina'. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010. Rehabilitate...

Fiona Rogers / Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) female 'Unyuk' holding her daughter 'Ursula' age 4. Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting National Park, Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. June 2010. Rehabilitate...

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) (right) and Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) foraging on snow. Perthshire, Scotland, January. Did you know? The Tree sparrow population in UK dropped by 93% between 19...

Erlend Haarberg / European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) flying between coastal rocks with a large wave crashing, Snaefellsnes peninsula, Iceland, February 2011

Alex Mustard / Mirrorwing flying fish (Hirundichthys speculiger) mirrored and swimming beneath the surface at night, between Bahamas and Gulf Stream, West Atlantic Ocean, Florida, USA.

Andrew Parkinson / 2020VISION / An adult male Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) comes in to land, backlit by evening sunlight, Derbyshire, England, UK, March. Did you know? In addition to the colour differences between male and female du...

Petra Wegner / Briard / Berger de Brie, head portrait with plaited hair between eyes.

MYN / Paul Harcourt Davies / Ophrys orchid (Ophrys x maremmae) a natural hybrid between (Ophrys fuciflora) and Ophrys tenthredinifera) occasionally found where both species are present together, Umbria, Italy, May. focus-stack-c...

Sven Zacek / Grass Snake (Natrix natrix) looking out from between wood slats. Estonia, Europe, June.

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Brunnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia) flying between misty colony cliffs. Spitsbergen, Svalbard, August.

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Meadow of seaweeds in a shallow channel between islands in the Cairns Of Coll, Island of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, July