Eric Baccega / Portrait of woman from the Mursi tribe, traditionally decorated and painted, wearing a large clay lip plate, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, March 2015.

Olga Kamenskaya / Vehicles parked on ice on the surface of Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, March 2008.

Denis-Huot,Denis-Huot / White-backed Vulture (Gyps Africanus) feeding, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Denis-Huot,Denis-Huot / Ostrich (Struthio camelus) female and male with chicks, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

Rolf Nussbaumer / Coppery-headed Emerald, Elvira cupreiceps, male in flight feeding on Spiral Ginger (Costus Pulverulentus), Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, December 2006

Solvin Zankl / Long-nosed whip snake coming towards camera {Ahaetulla prasina} Sulawesi, Indonesia

Philippe Clement / Industrial estate showing BASF chemical production site in the port of Antwerp, Belgium, February 2019.

Kirkendall-Spring / Waterfall at Hug Point, Hug Point State Park, Oregon, USA. April 2016.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) male feeding from passionflower (Passiflora mixta), Papallacta, Ecuador, Andes, South America. January.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Gildas Mahe and Jean Le Cam hiking out aboard the Figaro Beneteau mono-sail yacht , ‘Interface Concept’ leaving Concarneau,during the Transat AG2R Transatlantic Race from Concarneau to St Barths. Corn...

Benoit Stichelbaut / ‘Interface Concept’ preparing for the Transat AG2R, Concarneau, France, 29th March 2014. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Will Burrard-Lucas / Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) sleeping with butterfly on claw, Komodo National Park, Komodo Island, Indonesia.

Kirkendall-Spring / Black and white photograph of three rocks with one jammed between the other two, Washington, USA.

Denis-Huot / yellow baboon (Papio hamadryas cynocephalus) male looking at a mother and its baby, Tsavo East National Park, Kenya

Christophe Courteau / Jacare caiman {Caiman crocodilus yacare} portrait with wasp / bee, Pantanal, Brazil, South America, July

Rolf Nussbaumer / Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii), Green-Crowned Woodnymph (Thalurania fannyi) and Brown Inca (Coeligena wilsoni) adults feeding on Ginger flower, Mindo, Ecuador, Andes, South America, Februar...

Rolf Nussbaumer / Coppery-headed Emerald, Elvira cupreiceps, male in flight feeding on Shrimp plant(Acanthaceae), Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, December 2006

Rolf Nussbaumer / Coppery-headed Emerald, Elvira cupreiceps, male in flight on flower of the ginger family(Zingiberaceae), Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, December 2006

Rolf Nussbaumer / Coppery-headed Emerald, Elvira cupreiceps, male in flight on flower of the ginger family(Zingiberaceae), Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, December 2006

Rolf Nussbaumer / Coppery-headed Emerald, Elvira cupreiceps, female in flight on flower of the ginger family(Zingiberaceae), Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, December 2006

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...

Paul D Stewart / Pithecanthropus europeaus alalus (european speechless ape-man) by Gabriel Max, 1894, reproduced as Photogravure Plate 29 in Ernst Haeckel 'Naturliche Schopfungs-Geschichte' (Natural History of Creatio...

Visuals Unlimited / Edible frogs (Rana esculenta) perched on a log in a pond, Switzerland

Visuals Unlimited / Variation in Scleractinia Stony Coral samples from Bali and the Carribean.

Visuals Unlimited / Magnolia leaf underside showing the venation pattern.

Visuals Unlimited / Snowflake, LM.

Visuals Unlimited / Snowflake, LM.

Visuals Unlimited / Snowflake, LM.

Visuals Unlimited / Snowflake, LM.

Visuals Unlimited / Snowflake, LM.

Visuals Unlimited / Snowflake, LM.

Visuals Unlimited / Snowflake.

Visuals Unlimited / Brown Pelican landing (Pelecanus occidentalis), North America.