These images will take your breath away.
Alwin Hardenbol
Earth is home to millions of breathtaking (and bizarre) creatures. And the British Ecological Society has dedicated itself to the study of the natural world for more than a century.
dalmatian pelican
Hardenbol's image depicts a Dalmatian Pelican as it begins to take flight. These birds are the largest kind of pelican in the world, weighing in at 21 lbs. They can fly up to 40 mph.
Hardenbol was most struck by the bird's dynamic wings, they said in a statement.
Lertvilai's photo captures the hatching of young, California two-spot octopuses. These tiny octopuses are native to California's oceans and will eventually grow to three-feet long. Their favorite haunt is the sandy ocean floor.
Chakraborty's photo depicts one of nature's greatest engineers: the Weaver ant. These ants are a famous example of social behavior and cooperation in nature.
This photograph is a panorama made up of multiple long-exposure photographs of the Milky Way above an experimental stream system made up of 128 mesocosms. As part of my PhD, I helped to run a multiple-stressor experiment testing the individual and combined effects of different climate-change stressors on freshwater food webs. Each of the 128 mesocosms, or medium worlds, had a diverse ecosystem from bacteria to fish. Pumps constantly pushed water from the nearby river up to eight main water tanks and then down through our mesocosms for five weeks straight, day and night.