“As nightfall begins to fall, an Apollo butterfly chooses to sit on an oxeye daisy.
You can’t resist the urge to marvel at its beauty. This female mosquito, with its remarkable hairy legs and radiant gleam, is a complete shocker. It’s one of the Sabethes species found in central and South America.
What a disgrace this specific example likewise turns out to be a significant transporter of tropical sickness.
“In southern California, USA, an adolescent white-tailed kite tries to grab a live mouse from the grasp of its drifting dad.
A vixen searches for salmon carcasses in the shallows of Karluk Lake in the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska.
A gleaming fungus sticks to a dead tree in the rainforest of Queensland, Australia.
“In the wake of a fishing boat, a slick of dead and dying herrings covers the outer layer of the ocean off the shoreline of Norway. The boat had gotten too many fish, and when the circling mass of the tote seine net was shut and winched down, it broke, releasing huge loads of squashed and choked out creatures.
Cheetahs are strong swimmers, Male cheetahs paddle across the flood-enlarged Talek River in Kenya’s Maasai Mara.
Three rose-ringed parakeet chicks pop their heads out of their nest as their dad returns with food.
A drone looks down on this eye-catching detail of a small stream in the Geamana Valley, inside Romania’s Apuseni Mountains.