
A portrait of a Helena's tree frog, found in the Peruvian rainforest of Tambopata, was captured by photographer Roberto Garcia Roa.

This image, captured by Peter Hudson, depicts a steenbok's last futile attempt not to become prey, while a mother leopard is determined to feed her cub, in Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve.

The water's surface splits the scene in two: above, a research vessel drifts through the seas, while below two scuba divers install cages on the sandy seabed surrounded by corals. Andreas Eich captured the photo in Fiji.

This common daisy's bright pink petal tips turn to white closer to the stem, where they fade into the soft white glow of this highly magnified photo by Mathew Rees, taken in the United Kingdom.

Thousands of black-and-white striped convict tangs congregate unaware as a gray reef shark lurks in the background. Captured in French Polynesia by Emma Weschke.

A terrestrial hermit crab with its new home, a faded plastic bottle cap, explores a postcard-perfect beach scene in Indonesia, captured by Andreas Eich.

Sam Eberhard photographed the chaos of a bald eagle and its prey attempting to avoid the western gulls circling above, taken in Oregon.

Joshua Copping captures a regal stag — with one antler adorned with hanging leaves —standing among the red and orange hues of autumnal vegetation in England.

Photographer Jennifer Holguin captured this image of a round-tailed horned lizard impaled by a yucca stalk in the Chihuahuan Desert in the southwestern United States.

The glowing green lights created by a swarm of fireflies shines bright against the deep green grass of a forest floor in India. Image captured by Naitik Patel.

Mid-courtship dance, two sarus cranes reach for the skies, with the home they share visible in the background in India. Photographed by Subhashis Halder.

Mackenzie Meier captures a turtle swimming over a shallow reef in Hawaii while a group of tourists gather behind with their cameras at the ready.


