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Stunning photos show how an AI algorithm could help insect pollinators

28 June 2023

These images reveal a very special garden, designed by artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg along with her garden-planning AI algorithm in order to generate garden plans that maximise the number of different pollinators

Dazzling photographs of flocking flamingos

4 January 2023

Travel and landscape photographer Raj Mohan has captured these stunning images of flamingos on Pulicat lake in Tamil Nadu, India. The birds occasionally travel there in response to changing conditions

Dazzling photographs reveal the world on a microscopic scale

19 October 2022

From a close-up of a 1-millimetre-wide coral polyp to a shot of a tiger beetle clasping a fly, these photos are some of the top entries in the Nikon Small World 2022 Photomicrography competition

Tony Wu watches the electrifying reproductive dance of a giant sea star.

Winning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022 competition

14 October 2022

Meet the award-winning photographers from this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

This young green turtle was eagerly snacking on a lion?s mane jellyfish at Julian Rocks like a child eating candy floss. She took such a large mouthful that the jelly morsel wrapped around her face like a veil as she kept swimming blindly towards the surface.

Like a child eating candyfloss: see a green turtle tuck into jellyfish

29 June 2022

This photo of a young green turtle is shortlisted for the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2022 competition, one of several stunning images showing off the region's wildlife and landscape

Striking photos of jellyfish shed light on the enigmatic invertebrates

22 June 2022

Photographer Jan Schlegel’s new project, Of Aliens, Mermaids and Medusas, is a celebration of these prehistoric sea creatures, shot at the jellyfish lab in the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa

Fascinating shots of extinct and endangered animals and plants

15 June 2022

Taken from Marc Schlossman's new photography book, Extinction, these images document specimens from the Field Museum's private collections, from the critically endangered kakapo bird to the hawksbill sea turtle

FEATURE CROP The global winning image was taken by Jan Martinek (Czech Republic). Arabidopsis thaliana flower with pollen tubes growing through the pistil. The flower tissues were chemically cleared to become transparent, while the pollen tubes were stained with aniline blue (yellow fluorescence) in order to be seen.

Dazzling close-up images of the natural world, from flowers to flies

1 June 2022

These are some of the winning and shortlisted entries for the Olympus Image of the Year Global Life Science Light Microscopy Award, a global photography competition showcasing the art of scientific imaging