Scarface. Battle-scarred Big Tom, a well known large male leopard in the Jawai region of Rajasthan, India. 📷 Marlon du Toit

A lilac-breasted roller's plumage appears almost hand-painted against the morning sky in Kruger National Park. 📷 Hayden Dumaw

A full grown but malnourished and sick orca lies stranded on the Dutch coast. 📷 Lennart Verheuve

At Ningaloo Reef, a whale shark surges through a swirling bait ball as tuna drive the fish into tight formation. 📷 Jake Wilton

A Barred Owl rests motionless among cascading curtains of Spanish moss, its streaked plumage rendering it nearly invisible. 📷 Ray Yeager

Straddling two slender reed stems, a warbler locks its grip against the breeze — a small bird commanding the marsh on its own terms. 📷 Hannah Assil

A blue tit sings on a frosty morning, its breath forming a line of mushroom-shaped steam puffs in the frozen air. 📷 Mikhail Kalinin

A Eurasian blue tit dives, wings flared for control, captured right before a precision landing. 📷 Sanju Krishnan

A lone polar bear rests on a large drifting iceberg along the stark Arctic coastline. 📷 Kosta Punkka

A common starling demonstrates the quick dip-and-tilt technique many birds use to drink while keeping alert for danger. 📷 Enrico Staine

Multiple species gather at an African waterhole, intimately captured under a vast, star-lit Kenyan sky. 📸 Sean Weekly

Bone Breaker. The piercing gaze of a Bearded Vulture, a mountain scavenger famed for dropping bones from height to shatter them and reach the marrow within. 📷 Antoni Bernardo

A line of oryx moves across the rust-red sands of Namibia, their pale forms emerging through morning fog in search of desert water. 📷 Solly Levi