The towering stone columns of the Apandana Palace rising into a clear blue sky. White-backed vultures

The towering stone columns of the Apandana Palace rising into a clear blue sky. White-backed vulturesThe towering stone columns of the Apandana Palace rising into a clear blue sky. Persepolis, Shiraz, Fars Province, Islamic Republic of Iran.

a ball of feces containing its eggs

Whale bones emerge from black volcanic sand on an inhospitable beach

A modern galley kitchen in a jet airliner with storage compartments

Christinus marmoratus

near Alligator River

An Apollo Lunar Suit worn by an astronaut covered in moon dust

A stall salesman selling a dead Black Caiman for meat in a Amazon River town black market

A stretching black rhinoceros calf and his mother in tall grass

Detail of a statue once used as ballast in a Chinese merchant ship

An orphaned African Elephant calf feeding on a tree branch and leaves in a wildlife shelter corral

A weathered and well-used brass prayer wheel at the entrance to a Buddhist monastery

A bright red umbrella made of silk and bamboo rods at a fairground