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Alex Hyde / Leaf-cutter ants (Atta cephalotes) carrying pieces of leaf that they have harvested back to their underground fungus garden in their nest, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Photographed in mobile field studi...
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Alex Hyde / Leaf-cutter ants (Atta cephalotes) carrying pieces of leaf that they have harvested back to their underground fungus garden in their nest, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Photographed in mobile field studi...
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Alex Hyde / Silk moth (Automeris zugana) sequence 1 of 2, photographed on a white background in mobile field studio, Cordillera de Talamanca mountain range, Caribbean Slopes, Costa Rica.
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Alex Hyde / Silk moth (Automeris zugana) sequence 2 of 2, with wings open to reveal eyespots, a means of deterring predators, photographed on a white background in mobile field studio, Cordillera de Talamanca mou...
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Nuno Sa / Long snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) in captive breeding laboratory at University of Algarve, Portugal. June 2010. Overall winner of the Underwater Photographer of the Year competition 2015.
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Eric Baccega / Young woman from the Bodi tribe displaying elaborate scarification on the skin of her back, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, March 2015.
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MYN / Corne van der Linden / Wolf spider (Venator immansueta) Perth, South-Western Australia.
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MYN / Corne van der Linden / Variety of orchids from the Banksia Woodland, Swan Coastal Plain. Including Pansy orchid (Diuris magnifica), Slender sun orchid (Thelymitra vulgaris), Cowslip orchid (Caladenia flava), Plain sun orchi...
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MYN / Paul van Hoof / Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) female, The Netherlands, July. Meetyourneighbours.net project
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Solvin Zankl / Deepsea Basket star (Gorgonocephalus lamarckii) specimen, from the North Atlantic near Iceland.
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Solvin Zankl / Deepsea Viperfish (Chauliodus sloani) specimen from the North Atlantic near the North West of Spain, at a depth of 560-580m.
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Solvin Zankl / Deepsea Octopus (Bathypolypus bairdii) specimen from the North Atlantic, near the Faroe Islands at a depth of 805m