David Tipling / 2020VISION / Lagoon excavation. Rutland Water, summer 2010.

David Tipling / 2020VISION / Machine skimming off topsoil in first phase of lagoon excavation so that it can be used for earth embankments providing good soil for vegetation to grow. Rutland Water lagoon creation project summer 2...

David Tipling / 2020VISION / Machine skimming off topsoil in first phase of lagoon excavation so that it can be used for earth embankments providing good soil for vegetation to grow. Rutland Water lagoon creation project summer 2...

Andy Sands / Hunting Wasp (Ectemnius cavifrons) spoil heap of sawdust left after excavation of nesting tunnel in rotten log. Hertfordshire, England, UK, July.

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Excavators restoring peat bog after peat extraction, Westhay Moor SWT reserve, Somerset Levels, Somerset, England, UK, April 2011

Alex Hyde / Clay deposits visible as distinct layers, exposed after roadside excavation, with workers' tools included for scale, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar.

Alex Hyde / Clay deposits visible as distinct layers, exposed after roadside excavation, with workers' tools included for scale, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar.

Alex Hyde / Clay deposits visible as distinct layers, exposed after roadside excavation, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar.

Sue Flood / Snow plough / Excavation vehicle, Ross Sea, Antarctica, November 2008

Gerrit Vyn / Eastern Screech-Owl (Otus / Megascops asio) in gray morph plumage, roosting in a Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) excavation hole in a Red Pine tree, Autumn, Tompkins County, New York, USA

Mark Moffett / Ant (Pheidole ferox) nest entrance was formed from underground soil excavation and deposition by worker ants, Parana River, northern Argentina

Shattil & Rozinski / Egyptians working on archeological excavation, near Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt

Tony Phelps / Sand excavation for Sand lizard {Lacerta agilis} management, Wareham forest, Dorset, UK

Doug Wechsler / Gold mining excavation on tundra, Nome, Alaska, USA

Daniel Gomez / Forest destruction. Burnt for gravel excavation. Sultanate of Brunei.

Jeff Vanuga / Mule deer graze in front of Stewart Point Well, Wyoming. USA.

Paul D Stewart / Illustration, carving of Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius); lithograph of a mammoth carved on mammoth ivory from the Perigord. Published and first announced in 1865 in the 'Annales des Sciences N...