Food supplies and storage boxes outside the hut of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Baleen plates

Food supplies and storage boxes outside the hut of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Baleen platesFood supplies and storage boxes outside the hut of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton's Hut, Cape Royds, Ross Island, Antarctica.

The powerful hooked beak of a South Polar Skua

Lake Mutanda Uganda

Lichen grows on an antique plough wheel bracket in the mountains

The clustered flowers of a Bangalow Palm hanging beneath the fronds

A rugged cliff face and pinnacle rock near a volcanic caldera

A striking New Holland Honeyeater with vibrant yellow wing feathers

an invasive grass Zoological Board of Victoria

A diminutive Kirk's Dik Dik urinating on the savannah plain

The tightly bound hair of an East African woman at a gathering

An alert female Greater Kudu pauses on a sandy forest track listening

The head of a Mata Mata turtle with a long snout for breathing from below the water surface

A herd of African Elephants migrating from the forest to the open savannah plain