An adult black-spotted male ladybug, an aphid predator, on a leaf. mollusks

An adult black-spotted male ladybug, an aphid predator, on a leaf. mollusksAn adult black spotted male ladybug, an aphid predator, on a leaf. Melbourne Zoo, Victoria, Australia. Melbourne Zoo, Victoria, Australia.

A king vulture in profile

excuse to extinguish its life in the name of protecting family and country

People camping among the trees near the ruins of Persepolis at Nowruz Iranian New Year

Suffolk Park

The twisted and wave-like folds of an enormous Vase Coral colony emerging from the ocean floor in a tropical reef

These bones differ enormously in size but serve the same purpose

or spot-tailed

When the sun sets over a coral reef the nightshift takes over and many species too delicate to face the tropical sun emerge

Karijini National Park

bitter glaciers that have consumed rock in Patagonia for countless millennia

A neon billboard illuminated beneath the summer night sky in Copenhagen

Simpson Desert