A young male common blanket octopus (Tremoctopus violaceus) showing his hectocotylus, Shizuoka, Japan. Photo by Abe Hideki/Nature Production/Minden Pictures
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Make a donationA young male common blanket octopus (Tremoctopus violaceus) showing his hectocotylus, Shizuoka, Japan. Photo by Abe Hideki/Nature Production/Minden Pictures
An Orca called Morgan in the Dolphinarium in Harderwijk, the Netherlands, September 2011. Morgan was subsequently transferred to the Loro Parque zoo in Tenerife, Spain. Photo by Marten Van Dijl/AFP/Getty
A northern gannet (Morus bassanus) breeding colony on Heligoland, Germany. Photo by Brais Seara/Getty
A deadly coral snake moves across fallen pine needles in a woodland in central Florida. Photo by Kristian Bell/Getty
Water lilies in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Photo © Frans Lanting/Lanting.com
All photos courtesy Marrioth Ling
Close-up detail of the Papilio demoleus malayanus, the lime butterfly. Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic
The snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus). Photo by Robbie George/The National Geographic Image Collection
A red deer stag in autumn mist. Photo by Arterra/Sven-Erik Arndt/Getty
Detail of Sunrise III (1936-37), by Arthur Garfield Dove. Gift of Katherine S Dreier to the Collection Société Anonyme/Yale University Art Gallery
Illustration by Richard Wilkinson
Coloured scanning electron microscope (SEM) of a water bear (Paramacrobiotus craterlaki) in moss. Photo by Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
Detail of White Cat (1935-38), by Gertrude Abercrombie. Courtesy the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Crowds wait outside the entrance to the Académie Française for Henri Bergson to appear. Paris, 24 January 1918. From the Excelsior newspaper. Photo by Roger Violet/Topfoto
An exhibit depicts the life of a Neanderthal family in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern town of Krapina, Croatia. 25 February 2010. Photo by Nikola Solic/Reuters