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Sebastian Di Domenico, Colombia, Shortlist, Latin America Professional Award, Sony World Photography Awards 2026 The Andean bear is the only bear species in South America and is listed as ?Vulnerable? on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. In Colombia, the largest population of the species can be found just two hours? drive from Bogota, close to Chingaza National Park. While these curious animals are more herbivorous than many other bear species, they will occasionally kill cattle which attracts more bears into the area and increasingly puts them in contact with locals and visitors. Tourism initiatives and education might hold the key to ensuring a safe future for one of the most important Andean bear populations in Colombia.

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Rare Andean bear captured in stunning photograph

Shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards, this image by photographer Sebastian Di Domenico was taken in Colombia

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Five stunning images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year awards

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Sebastião Salgado’s stunning shots of the world’s icy regions

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Images reveal the astonishing complexity of the microscopic world

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Overall winner Mesmerizing spider threads The image shows two exceptional silk threads of the Australian netcaster spider, Asianopis subrufa. Unlike typical web-builders, this spider holds a specialized, sticky net between its four front legs. When an unsuspecting insect approaches, the spider rapidly expands its net and casts it over the prey, a maneuver that demands dramatic extensibility from the supporting lines at the sides of the sticky net. These threads are composed of an elastomeric core encased in a sheath of harder fibers of varying sizes; the result is a structure that is both strong and stretchy. The mesmerizing, looping fibers in the image capture the eye with their meandering fiber bundles, which shift in their complex winding from large to small scales. The image covers 50 microns in width and was captured using a Zeiss GeminiSEM 360 field-emission scanning electron microscope under high vacuum and after coating of Au-Pd. Minimal adjustments of curves and cropping were applied via Adobe Photoshop. Martin J. Ramirez Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales - CONICET "Jonas Wolff, Greifswald University. Website: https://zoologie.uni-greifswald.de/struktur/abteilungen/erc-junior-research-group-evolutionary-biomechanics/ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/evoimec.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evoimec/ ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/lab/EVOMEC-Macro-Evolution-Comparative-Biomechanics-and-Biomaterials-Jonas-O-Wolff" Royal Society Photography Competition 2025 overall winner, 'Mesmerizing spider threads' by Mart?n J. Ram?rez. Sample obtained by Jonas Wolff.

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Incredible close-up of spider silk wins science photo prize

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Pg. 89, Robert Clark, Flamingo

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Birds dazzle and amaze in stunning new photographs

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Photo ? Steve Monks Lydia Bradey on the first female ascent of Zenith, Halfdome, Yosemite National Park

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Triumphant images of women who climbed to new heights

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Encounter Within One Second ? Zhang Yanguang This image captures the International Space Station (ISS) transiting across the solar disc. The solar background was captured separately with double-stacked etalon[an optical filter that isolates specific wavelengths, used to observe solar details], and reveals high-contrast chromospheric details. The imaging sequences were strategically combined during post-processing to preserve both the spacecraft?s crisp silhouette and the Sun?s intricate surface features. Taken with a Takahashi Teegul 60 telescope, Coronado SolarMax 60 double stacked, Vixen polaris mount, Player One Astronomy Neptune-M camera, 500 mm f/8.3, 0.3-millisecond exposure Location: Xiamen, Fujian, China, 24 January 2025

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Otherworldly space images from a major photography competition

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Two of five snow leopard cubs recently photographed in Mongolia

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Rare images capture snow leopard cubs in their dens

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My Octopus Mother by Kat Zhou

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Stunningly intimate octopus image wins aquatic photography prize

Kat Zhou has won the Aquatic Life category in the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, while a shot of a death-defying leap by a lemur took the top prize

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Dramatic Edward Burtynsky image shows stark desert divide

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Inside Europe’s largest jellyfish farm

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Powerful images capture the fragility and resilience of our planet

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Captivating images expose a ‘staged version’ of nature

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