Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Adult Robin (Erithacus rubecula) in winter, perched on twig with frozen crab apples, Scotland, UK, December 2010. Did you know? The association of Robins with Christmas came from the postmen, known as...

Ernie Janes / Collecting free-range organic Chicken eggs (Gallus gallus domesticus) UK, September 2005

Albert Lleal / SEM close-up view of a skeletal fragment of a Bryozoan colony at 35x magnification that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Albert Lleal / SEM close-up view of a skeletal fragment of a Bryozoan colony at 21x magnification, came from beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Jack Dykinga / Cracked mud patterns across the valley floor. This mud came from a mudslide and boulders and vegetation were locked into place by the river of mud. Bandwater, Death Valley National Park, Mojave Dese...

Juergen Freund / Lumholtz tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) Geoffrey was raised from baby to adulthood by Margit Cianelli and released into her 140-acre rainforest backyard 8 years ago. He since became the alpha m...

Ashley Cooper / In 2008 China became the worlds largest emitter of greenouse gases, fuelled by high levels of economic growth and electricity mainly being generated by dirty, highly polluting coal fired power station...

Solvin Zankl / Mostly in the night, when the sand cooles down the hatchlings (Hawksbill) struggle to the surface of the sand and rush to the sea all at once. Here you can see the depression where they came out and t...

Tony Wu / Whale louse (Cyamus ovalis) on hand to show scale, came from a Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) South Africa. Photographed with the permission of the Department of Environmental Affairs, Sou...

Franco Banfi / The Icelandic horse is a unique breed of small horses that came to Iceland with the first settlers from Norway 1100 years ago, Iceland

Tony Wu / Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) shed and slough off skin continuously, perhaps as a mechanism for maintaining healthy skin and shedding parasites. This is a large piece of skin that came off an...

Tony Wu / Giant squid (Architeuthis) tentacle / arm dropped by an adult female Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) shortly after she came up from a deep dive, Ogasawara, Japan.

Laurent Geslin / European grey wolf {Canis lupus} groups surrounding and fighting European brown bear {Ursus arctos} captive, Switzerland, February ^^^ Bear came out of hibernation and was dominant

Pete Oxford / Galapagos Land Iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) juvenile has pit tag checked and will be released, individual came from captive breeding program, Baltra Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Galapagos Land Iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) juvenile being released, individual came from captive breeding program, Baltra Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) tracks from female that came to shore to lay eggs, Orinoco River, Apure, Venezuela

Pete Oxford / Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) tracks from female that came to shore to lay eggs, Orinoco River, Apure, Venezuela

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Schlumbergerella sp) SEM close-up view at 14x magnification, that came from Bali, Indonesia

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Schlumbergerella sp) SEM close-up view at 28x magnification, that came from Bali, Indonesia

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Quinqueloculina sp) SEM close-up view at 42x magnification, that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Albert Lleal / SEM close-up view of a skeletal fragment of a Bryozoan colony at 28x magnification that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Miniacina sp) SEM close-up view at 42x magnification, that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Miniacina sp) SEM close-up view at 42x magnification, that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Amphisorus sp) SEM close-up view at 42x magnification, that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Quinqueloculina sp) SEM close-up view at 42x magnification, that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Peneroplis sp) SEM close-up view at 42x magnification, that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Cibicides sp) SEM close-up view at 70x magnification, that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Albert Lleal / Foraminiferan (Globigerina sp) SEM close-up view at 21x magnification, that came from a beach in Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Ann & Steve Toon / Team of Elephant Population Management Program surgeons, assisted by Dr Mark Stetter, right, director of animal health at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida perform vasectomy on wild elephant bull (Lo...

Cyril Ruoso / Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) monitor checking out damage in kitchen after baboons came in through unlocked window, South Africa

Cyril Ruoso / Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) damage in kitchen after baboons came in through unlocked window, South Africa

Paul D Stewart / Illustration from Punch 41 (1861) page 34, July. 'The age of the comet ascertained to a nicety. The antediluvians recognise an old acquantance of A.M. 1372'. Prehistoric reptiles (modelled after Water...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrated portraits of Richard Owen (20, July 1804- 18 December 1892) and Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895). Linley Sambourne's illustration for the new 1885 Macmillan edition of Kings...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Orangutan (Pan pygmaeus), January 1838, Jenny the first Orangutan in London zoo. Full publication details in image. On 28 March 1838, Charles Darwin came to the London Zoo to visit Jen...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Ichthyosaur skeleton, copper fold-out engraving at life size, (2.5cm ammonite top right for scale). It comes from a paper by Sir Everard Home in 1819. He was the first geologist to pub...

Paul D Stewart / The first scientific illustration of an Ichthyosaur skull, Temnodontosaurus platydon, discovered by Mary Anning, 1812. It comes from an 1814 paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Societ...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of Sacred Ibis. Composite of three plates (by Balzac) from Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' 1812. Left - a mummy skeleton from Thebes, middle - the modern sacred ibis, right - an Egyptian te...

Paul D Stewart / Mummified Ibis Head from Egypt (Ptolemaic period 305-30 B.C.) together with English translations of Cuvier's 'Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe' and one of his Ibis plates reproduced after 'Ossa...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration portrait of a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). 1809 'Black Oran Otan' copper engraving from 'Zoological Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution'. This is a reprint of Tyson's first figur...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, polymath, American Founding Father and President (b. 13 April 1743 - d. 4 July 1826). Engraving by W.Holl in 'The Gallery of Portraits' 1837 with later colouring, after p...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrations of barnacles, anemones and other invertebrates, 'Balanite Balanus' from the 'Encyclopedie Methodique - Histoire Naturelle les Vers ' published by Pancoucke 1792. Lamarck worked on this e...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut of Common electric ray (Torpedo torpedo) with old colouring. From Conrad Gesner's 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. The torpedo or electric ray had been well know by...

Paul D Stewart / Fine lithographic engraving portrait of Samuel Wilberforce (1846) Lord Bishop of Oxford by George Richmond, engraved by Henry Robinson and published by J. Hogarth, London. Samuel Wilberforce, son of W...

Paul D Stewart / The frontis to Gideon Mantell's 1851 book, 'Petrifactions and their Teachings - a handbook to the gallery of organic remains at the British Museum'. The frontis engraving is of Notornis Mantelli - the...

Rick Tomlinson / News Corp Skipper Jez Fanstone, Volvo Ocean Race, 2001-2002. ^^^ News Corp came third overall in leg 1, Southampton UK to Cape Town South Africa.

Rick Tomlinson / "Amer Sport One" skipper Grant Dalton at the prize giving in Kiel Sweden. They came third overall in the Volvo Ocean Race, 2001-2002.

Rick Tomlinson / Ellen MacArthur at the nav station aboard her Open 60 "Kingfisher", in which she came 2nd in the Vendee Globe singlehanded round the world race, 2000-01.

Rick Tomlinson / Fujicolor skippered by Loïck Peyron during the Europe 1 Star, 1996. ^^^ He came first in a time of 10d 10h 5m.

Rick Tomlinson / Fujicolor skippered by Loïck Peyron during the Europe 1 Star, 1996. He came first in a time of 10d 10h 5m.

Rick Tomlinson / 50ft monohull "Misco Computer Supplies", skippered by Giovanni Soldini during the Europe 1 Star, 1992. ^^^ It came into 17th place, 18d 4h 16m.

Rick Tomlinson / Alain Gabbay, skipper of Maxi yacht Charles Jourdan that came 6th in the Whitbread Round the World Race 1989-90.

Rick Tomlinson / Ron Holland's Maxi, "NCB Ireland", skippered by Joe English during the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1989-90. ^^^ It came 12th overall in the Race.

Rick Tomlinson / Ellen MacArthur's Open 60 "Kingfisher". ^^^ She came 2nd in the Vendee Globe race.

Rick Tomlinson / Charles Jourdan, skippered by Alain Gabbay, during the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1989-90. It came 6th overall in the race.

Rick Tomlinson / Skippered by Pierre Fehlmann, "UBS Switzerland" in the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1985. ^^^ They came 4th in the event.

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Female Colocolo / Pampas cat (Leopardus colocolo colocolo), Unidad de Rehabilitación de Fauna Silvestre. This animal was originally from Calama, Chile. She came to the wildlife hospital as a baby. Sh...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Female Colocolo / Pampas cat (Leopardus colocolo colocolo), Unidad de Rehabilitación de Fauna Silvestre. This animal was originally from Calama, Chile. She came to the wildlife hospital as a baby. Sh...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Female Colocolo / Pampas cat (Leopardus colocolo colocolo), Unidad de Rehabilitación de Fauna Silvestre. This animal was originally from Calama, Chile. She came to the wildlife hospital as a baby. S...

David Fleetham / Statue of Buddha, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, erected in 1968 in memory of the Japanese sugar plantation workers who came to Hawaii in 1868

Edwin Giesbers / Professor Dr. An Martel, University of Ghent, taking a swab from a Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) to check whether any DNA of the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is present. The Fire sa...

Edwin Giesbers / Professor Dr. An Martel, University of Ghent, taking a swab from a Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) to check whether any DNA of the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is present. The Fire sa...

John Chan / Ridgeway's rail (Rallus obsoletus levipes) attacks a Great egret (Ardea alba) that came too close to its chicks, Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, California, USA May,

Doug Gimesy / Portrait of a female Greater glider (Petauroides volans) 'Grevillea' on a branch. Named Grevillea, she was found as baby when trees were cut down in Condamine as part of a mining operatio...

Doug Gimesy / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) mother and joey are released by Emily Cordy (left/green clothes) - a Forest and Wildlife officer (and assisted by members from the Australian Defence Force) at Log Cros...

Doug Gimesy / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) mother and joey are released by Lachlan Clarke (left/green clothes) - a Senior Forest and Wildlife officer (and assisted by members from the Australian Defence Force) )...

Doug Gimesy / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) mother and joey are released by Emily Cordy (left/green clothes) - a Forest and Wildlife officer (and assisted by members from the Australian Defence Force) at Log Cros...

Doug Gimesy / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) female released at Log Crossing in the Colquhoun State Forest (Kalimna West, Victoria) and watched on by Senior Forest and Wildlife Officer Lachlan Clarke. She came in f...