Alex Hyde / Velvet Worm (Peripatus novaezealandiae) silhouetted against a leaf, known as 'living fossils', having remained the same for approximately 570 million years, New Zealand, Captive

Alex Hyde / Velvet Worm (Peripatus novaezealandiae) known as 'living fossils', having remained the same for approximately 570 million years, New Zealand, Captive

Norbert Wu / Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) living fossil, ancestor of amphibians and land vertebrates, Comoros Islands

Ashley Cooper / The irony of solar powered CCTV at Shell's Albian sands tar sands mine. The tar sands are the largest industrial project on the planet, and the world's most environmentally destructive. The synthetic...

Ashley Cooper / The tailings pond at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Tailings ponds in the tar sands are unlined and leach toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment. In addition, tho...

Ashley Cooper / Tar sands deposits being mined at the Syncrude mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. The tar sands are the largest industrial project on the planet, and the world's most environmentally destru...

Paul D Stewart / Shell of extant deep water squid Spirula (Spirula spirula) backlit and sectioned to show how the structure of partitions within the shell is reminiscent of the extinct ammonites and living nautiloids.

Paul D Stewart / Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) specimen ventral anatomy (including book gills) of this primitive arthropod.

Paul D Stewart / Horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) specimens with tubes of Limulus amebocyte lysate, harvested from the Horseshoe crabs blood, which is used for detection of bacterial contamination in medical applic...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Trilobites ' Aspidonia' from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur published 1899-1904

Paul D Stewart / Comparison of the femur of a modern Three toed sloth and extinct giant sloth Scleidotherium spp. Scelidotherium (including the femur) found by Darwin. The discovery of these giant extinct relatives of...

Paul D Stewart / Ammonite (Cosmoceras proniae) from Jurrasic period, 165 million years ago, from Russia. Shown ithin the shell of modern Abalone (Haliotis sp.) This illustrates the preservation in the ammonite fossil...