For two days at the start of monsoon season on the Indian subcontinent, male Asian common toads turn bright yellow, while females stay brown. Stückler et al. / Ichthyology & Herpetology, 2025 Most of the year, male Asian common toads are a dull, muddy brown color. Smithsonian Magazine

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Six species of North American bats—big brown bats (pictured), eastern red bats, Seminole bats, southeastern myotis, gray bats and Brazilian free-tailed bats—glow green under ultraviolet light, the underlying reason remains unclear. Jason Ondreicka via Getty Images : Smithsonian Magazine

One of two juvenile platypuses found in the Royal national park south of Sydney, Australia. Ten platypuses were reintroduced into the park in 2023, and the discovery of these young ones confirms that the new arrivals are thriving and breeding Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian

Round robin … a particularly spherical passerine sits on a branch on a grey autumn afternoon in Kinnego, Northern Ireland, UK Photograph: David Hunter/Alamy Live News/ Guardian

A Storm Battered Western Alaska, Scattering Thousands of Indigenous Artifacts Across the Sand Archaeologists and community members in Quinhagak are racing to recover as many Yup’ik objects as possible Smithsonian Magazine

From the window of the abandoned Ellis Island hospital, Lady Liberty stands tall, a sight that millions of immigrants entering the country would have seen for decades. Patrick Cashin, 2022 Smithsonian Magazine

Birds of a feather don’t just flock together; seemingly, they walk together, too. These kakas, a kind of native parrot, were seen near a preserve in Wellington. Lyondhür Picciarelli, 2018. Smithsonian Magazine

This was one of several batfishes I encountered on my first trip to Blue Heron Bridge in Florida in November 2024. #fish #florida #underwater Photo by Angela J. Sanchez/ Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine

Alone In the Woods I saw this woman in a red jacket who was dwarfed by the mighty redwoods. #california #forest #woman Photo by ; Lynn Cates

The Walnut of Benevento (Sabbath of Witches), 1822-1826, by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti (Molteni&Motta/Universal Images Group via Getty Images). Today, superstitions still run deep Smithsonian Magazine

An owl keeps watch in Siliguri, West Bengal, India Photograph: Diptendu Dutta/NurPhoto/Shutterstock/Guardian

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Archaeologists Decipher Crumbling Hieroglyphs to Reveal the Name of a Forgotten Maya Queen Who Ruled 1,400 Years Ago Ix Ch’ak Ch’een reigned over the city of Cobá in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Historians didn’t know her name before translating inscriptions discovered in 2024 Smithsonian

Queenstown is one of the most picturesque destinations in New Zealand, offering stunning scenery. In one shot, you can capture blue skies, bluer sea, white clouds, snow-capped mountains and seagulls soaring through the sky. Jie Xu, 2023 Smithsonian Magazine

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Max, a huge Siberian brown bear, bulks up for winter hibernation at International Animal Rescue’s centre in Armenia. Along with Minnie, his companion, he was kept for years in a filthy cage in a bus depot. Now the pair are thriving: Photograph: International Animal Rescue/FPWC/Guardian

How Far American Women Astronauts Have Soared Since Sally Ride Took Her Historic Spaceflight In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator explores the nearly five-decade history of women in the space program: Smithsonian

In Madagascar, they really know how to name a species. A short-legged ground roller catches a pimple-nose chameleon Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images/Guardian

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Beautiful light on a bear in the river. #bear Photo by David Swindler Smithsonian Magazine

The Putangirua Pinnacles in the Wairarapa region are impressive geological formations formed by erosion. Fans of the Lord of the Rings films may recognize the area as Dimholt Road. Samantha Dean, 2017 New Zealand / Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine

The native tui bird, here on a preserve in Dunedin, is easily recognizable due to its blue, green and bronze color, and distinct white throat tuft. Mateusz Zebrowski, 2022 . New Zealand Courtesy; Smithsonian Magazine

SOMA by Drew McDonald. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP/The world’s largest free-to-the-public sculpture exhibition on again along Sydney’s Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk/Guardian

Hello… an opportunistic seal on some fishermen’s kayaks in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland,. Nicolas, who leads fishing adventures in the area, said: “Seals are super-intelligent and they will do anything for a treat. This one was more than a handful” Photograph: Nicolas Valentin/SWNS/Guardian

The underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula are a window to the distant past. Through two million years and over multiple glaciation cycles, these caves have been transformed. When the sea level was high, the caves flooded, and their reach expanded. Smithsonian Magazine

Snowflakes fall on cows, which are a major part of New Zealands agricultural industry. Nearly 10 million are raised for dairy or beef. Zilong Qin, 2017 Smithsonian Magazine

A tiny springtail moves across escaping bubbles in the Austrian moorlands. Austria has lost 90 percent of its peat bogs, and many of the remaining bogs are not in good condition. This photo won the category called "Wetlands: The Bigger Picture." © Sebastian Frölich, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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A gorilla forages in the Virunga mountains along the Rwanda-Uganda border. Mountain gorillas are back from the brink: numbers have quadrupled to at least 1,000 since the 1970s, thanks to conservation efforts and sharing tourist income with local communities Photograph: Badru Katumba/The Guardian

One of 18 wildcats that have been released in the Scottish Highlands, after being declared functionally extinct in Britain in 2019. Experts believe there is “real hope for the future” of wildcats in Scotland Photograph: Peter Cairns/Royal Zoological Society of Scotland/Guardian

A shark embryo sits in its egg case, or "mermaid's purse," within a dark kelp forest in Monterey Bay, California. Photographer Ralph Pace fought against strong currents to capture this photo, winning the underwater images category. Ralph Pace, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

A flock of European starlings appears to form the shape of a giant bird above Rome. Daniel Dencescu / Wildlife Photographer of the Year German-Romanian photographer Daniel Dencescu spent hours following this immense group of starlings through the streets and suburbs of Rome. Smithsonian Magazine

A curious kaka clings to a branch on Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, a bird and wildlife preserve in Pukeatua. New Zealand Erik Alinder, 2024 / Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine

A red-throated loon (also called a red-throated diver) floats on calm water in Germany as the first rays of sun appear. This photo is part of a portfolio by Luca Lorenz that won the Rising Star Award. By Luca Lorenz, Wildlife Photographer of the Year / Smithsonian Magazine

A carnivorous pitcher plant glows with reflected ultraviolet light in Malaysia. The plant uses color, scent and nectar to lure its prey into the buckets, which contain digestive juices. The photo won the category for plants and fungi. By Chien Lee, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

An egret stands on the back of a Camargue horse in a field near Villeneuve-lès-Béziers, southern France. The birds catch and eat the insects stirred up from the grass by the horse’s movements Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images/Guardian Image

A capybara explores a newly restored area at Rio de Janeiro’s Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, Brazil. The city’s nature-based project to revive the lagoon’s ecosystem. A family of five adults and five pups now thrives in the renewed habitat Photograph Bob Karp/Zuma Press Wire/Guardian

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Paint Me Like One Of Your Forest Girls. By Michael Stavrakakis / Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards/ Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine

Landscape, Autumnal Effect, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, circa 1885-86 Collection of David Lachenmann / The Morgan Library and Museum / now on view at New York City’s Morgan Library and Museum / Smithsonian Magazine

Lining the Banks Long exposure of penguins along the river. #penguin #river #south #georgia Photo by David Swindler Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine

Miners found a mysterious smoking object in Western Australia. Experts think it may be part of a Chinese rocket. Images from Western Australia Pilbara Police via Facebook Courtesy: Smithsonian Magazine

Often pony-sized, Icelandic horses, known for their muscular bodies and their ability to grow long hair in the winter and shorter hair in the summer, snack on sparse roughage seemingly unaware of the picturesque mountain view nearby. Giovanna Dell’Acqua, Iceland, 2019 Smithsonian Magazine

A puffin, with its colorful accents in view, poses at the edge of a cliff in southern Iceland. Beverly Houwing, Ingolfshofdi, 2023 / Smithsonian Magazine

Peppered moray eels scavenge for dead fish in the intertidal zone in Seychelles. The photo, documenting a rarely photographed behavior, won the category for animals in their environment. By Shane Gross, Wildlife Photographer of the Year

In Mukhinskoye Swamp in Russia, blue lakes and channels outlined with white ice are surrounded by grasses in green and yellow and mosses in orange and red. This photo is part of Alexey Kharitonov's work that won the Portfolio Award. Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 Smithsonian Magazine

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