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K2 or Chogori peak, world's second highest.
Mountains
Gateway of India, located on the waterfront in South Mumbai (Bombay), India.
Mumbai
Statue of Liberty, New York City
New York City
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hooktooth dogfish shark (Aculeola nigra), fishes refer to asset 160016 for original art
Beyond Jaws: Sharks You Probably Won’t See in Movies
Emperor penguins and chicks in Antarctica (arctic animal; arctic bird; penguin; baby penguins; penguin family)
Penguins
Swimming birds of the Southern Hemisphere.
Welwitschia Mirabilis, Namibia, Africa. (desert plant)
Gymnosperms
Meaning "naked seeds," gymnosperms are plants that do not make...
Solar panels in field, La Calahorra, Granada, Spain (sun, energy, sunshine, collector, collection, electricity, cells, solar energy, renewable)
Renewable Energy
Solar, wind, and hydroelectric power!
Baobab trees on Madagascar Island.
Baobab Trees
Don’t cut them down on this planet, Little Prince!
Aurora Australis (the Southern Lights) shows sinous looping band of airglow above the Earth Limb, taken by space shuttle Discovery, May 6, 1991.
Earth from Space
Our precious blue marble, as seen from space.
Venus Fly Trap plants. (Dionaea muscipula) (Venus's-flytrap; carnivourous plant; carnivorous plants)
Carnivorous Plants
These plants eat things! How cool is that?!
Cycad, Cycadophyta
Cycads
Although they may look like small palm trees, cycads are actually...
Prickly pear cactus, Opuntia
Cacti
A sampling of the diversity of the cactus family (Cactaceae).
Passenger pigeon, mounted (Ectopistes migratorius)
Passenger Pigeon
A once-populous bird hunted to extinction.
Honey bee with full pollen sac on flower. (insect, pollination; bug; honeybee)
Honeybees
Honeybees: from flower to hive.
Thalloid of the liverwort Marchantia with gemma cups.
Liverworts
These non-vascular plants are almost as strange as their name!
Jellyfish, medusa stage, bioluminescent. Bioluminescence emission of light by an organism.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish are mysterious, beautiful, and definitely not fish.
Aurora borealis. Northern lights over Bear Lake, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska.
Aurora
The northern and southern lights, known respectively as the aurora...
English naturalist Charles Darwin; undated engraving.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin, the father of evolution.
Joshua trees at sunset, Joshua Tree National Monument, California
Yuccas
Yuccas, Spanish daggers, and Joshua trees are all members of...
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floating in space during the first untethered spacewalk, 2/7/84. This space first was made possible by the Manned Manuevering Unit (MMU), a nitrogen jet propelled backpack. Challenger Shuttle STS-41B.
NASA’s 50 Most Memorable Photos
We scoured NASA’s databases for their best photos, and here is...
Paricutin Volcano, Mexico, in eruption at night. 1947.
7 Wonders of the Natural World
Nature’s greatest hits.
cloning. First cloned cat. First cloned companion animal. CC (copy cat) female domestic shorthair cat (b. Dec. 22, 2001) photo Jan. 18, 2002. Cloned at Texas A&M Univ. College of Vet. Med. & Biomedical Sciences. Reproductive cloning genetics DNA cc cat
The First Cloned Cat and Her Relatives
Why cloning doesn’t mean carbon copy.
Red eyed tree frog (also spelled treefrog, also called tree toad, any typically arboreal frog belonging to one of several families of the order Anura)
11 Adorable Pocket-size Frogs
A look at some cute and colorful frogs
Pollution emissions from an industrial smokestack.
Global Warming
Global warming is one of the biggest threats to humanity. See...
Reed frog on the inside of a pink lily flower (hyperolius sp)
Life
Life can be traced to fossils more than 3.4 billion years old....
Tarsier (Tarsius Syrichta)in tree, Mindanao
Primates
We’re not monkeying around here! See photos of primates in this...
basic animal cell
Cells
The cell is the fundamental unit of life. See images of cells...
Beagle. Close-up of Beagle. Beagle small hound-dog breed popular as both a pet and a hunter.
Dogs
It’s a dog eat dog world out there, so take a break by looking...
front and back views of human skeleton, skeletal system, bones, human anatomy
The Human Skeletal System
No bones about it--you’ll love these images of the human skeletal...
Golgi apparatus (cellular organelle), cell biology
Golgi Apparatus
The Golgi apparatus is one of the key organelles in animal and...
The sun sets on a savanna in the African country of Kenya.
Savannas
Savannas aren’t the only things that are hot--check out the amazing...
Close-up of the face of a Siberian husky dog (working dog).
Siberian Huskies
The intelligent and graceful Siberian husky is also noted for...
Polled Hereford cow
Cows
The Polled Hereford. The Guernsey. The Brown Swiss. See images...
Comparison of skulls of Australopithecus afarensis, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, and modern chimpanzee.
Homo Erectus
Homo erectus is possibly an ancestor of modern humans. See what...
Australopithecus afarensis
Australopithecus
Australopithecus was a group of primates that are closely related...
K2 or Chogori peak, world's second highest.
Mountains
There’s no mountain high enough to keep us away from presenting...
North Platte River, Wyoming.
Rivers
Keep rolling, rolling, rolling on down to these amazing river...
Human/homo sapiens
Homo Sapiens
People are people, so click here and see some images of Homo...
Homo habilis
Homo Habilis
Homo habilis was the most ancient species of the human genus....
Protozoan. Magnified Radiolarian (also Radiolaria) protozoan of the class Polycystinea found in upper layers of oceans. Amoeboid protozoa produce intricate mineral skeletons. Simple organisms, protists, asexual reproduction
Protozoans
Protozoans may be small, but you will see plenty of details in...
Monarch butterfly (nectar, pollen, insect)
Butterflies
From caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly, this incredible insect...
Halley's Comet, 1986. Halleys Comet, also called Comet Halley. Named after English astronomer Edmond Halley.
Comets
Comets have captured the attention of astronomers for centuries....
Orange Cup Coral
Coral
Cool, colorful coral! From stony to staghorn, blue to black,...
American Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); bird.
Eagles
The eagle has been an enduring symbol of war and imperial power...
poison frog. Poison frog (family Dendrobatidae), also called poison dart frog, dart-poison frog, or poison arrow frog. Endangered dendrobates tinctorius or yellowback in south american amazon rain forest.
Frogs
Is a blue arrow-poison frog really blue? What does a tomato frog...
Milky Way galaxy in night sky. (space, stars, center, astronomy, telescope)
The Solar System
From Mercury to Neptune, meteorites to Moon rocks, there’s a...
Nickel-iron meteorite, from Canyon Diablo, Arizona.
Meteorites
Why study meteorites? How do scientists date them? Learn much...
Mosquito.
Mosquitoes
This bloodsucking bug can make you itch--and get you sick. Find...
Background: Sparkling Glitter. astrology, astronomy, atomosphere, big bang, fantasy, future, galaxy, universe, stars, Holiday, New Year's Eve, dust, dust blurred, dreamy, science and technology
Stars
There are--get this--tens of billions of trillions of stars in...
Mother orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) with her baby (photo taken in a zoo).
Orangutans
Hang out with these orangutans and see where you’d be most likely...
Common barn owl (Tyto alba) eating a mouse. Owls, birds.
Owls
A symbol of both wisdom and darkness, the owl is in many ways...
white shark. white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also called great white shark or white pointer near Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Mexico, Baja California peninsula, Pacific Ocean.
Sharks
Few things strike fear in the heart of a swimmer like this frightful...
With the tornado in the background in Goshen County, Wyoming on June 5, 2009, the National Severe Storms Laboratory Field Command Vehicle helped coordinate operations in the field during the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment
Tornadoes
What makes tornadoes turn? Why do they cause such damage and...
Monarch butterfly caterpillar.
Caterpillars
What’s that six-eyed creature creeping around this photo gallery?...
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching.
Whales
Whales are the heaviest known animals--and have a heavy history,...
Male lion (Panthera leo) in Nambia, South Africa. Savannah, mammal
Lions
Lions at rest and lions at play--learn more about what makes...
Cheetah portrait, Masai Maya National Reserve
Cheetahs
These quick cats are one of the most recognizable creatures on...
Nile crocodile swallowing a fish, Kruger National Park.
Crocodiles
What’s that peering out at you from this image gallery? It’s...
The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Egypt, Africa largely tropical and common in coral reef habitats. Cheloniidae, Endangered. Homepage blog 2011, science and technology, animal
Turtles
From turtles to tortoises to terrapins, here’s everything you...
Panoramic view of Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina.
Glaciers
What makes a glacier, a glacier? Where are they? And where have...