Image Albums

This seed is from a bird of paradise plant (Strelitzia reginae). Native to South Africa, the plant has a distinctive orange and blue flower, resembling an exotic bird, from which it takes its name. This image received an award from the Wellcome Trust, as

06 November 2009, 01:05 PM ET

Check out some award-winning scientific images and the stories behind them.

01 November 2009, 11:00 AM ET

Art and pencil illustrations bring dinosaurs and other ancient creatures world to life in this gallery by Julius T. Csotonyi.

This fleshed-out rendering by artist Michael Skrepnick best represents what a dinosaur called Hagryphus looked like.

17 October 2009, 01:44 PM ET

Amazing Ancient Beasts

Incredible creatures discovered in recent years, artfully rendered.

01 October 2009, 12:00 PM ET

Tornado Chasers

Storm photographer Charles Allison captures some wild tornadoes in action! These fantastic images were captured in various parts of Oklahoma City and Kansas.

01 September 2009, 12:00 PM ET

Venomous Fish

There are more fish with biting bites than snakes. See some of them.

01 August 2009, 12:00 PM ET

Image Gallery: Freaky Fish

Some of the stranger finned creatures of the deep.

01 July 2009, 12:00 PM ET

Colorful Creations: Incredible Coral

The seas are ablaze with the amazing hues of these unusual animals and the creatures that depend on them.

Whale sharks are considered filter feeders, as they filter tiny fish from the water using the fine mesh of their gill-rakers.

25 June 2009, 06:11 PM ET

On the Brink: A Gallery of Wild Sharks

Some of the most amazing sharks on the planet.

01 June 2009, 12:00 PM ET

Album: The World's Biggest Beasts

Huge creatures that went extinct, and other big animals that still roam this planet ... for now anyway.

01 May 2009, 12:00 PM ET

Image Gallery: Ants of the World

Some 20,000 ant species crawl the world. Here are but a few, from photographer and entomologist Alex Wild.

01 April 2009, 12:00 PM ET

Rich Life Under the Sea

Expedition reveals rich diversity of small creatures in the depths of the Bermuda Triangle.

01 March 2009, 11:00 AM ET

New Amphibian Tree of Life

American Museum of Natural History biologists and colleagues have radically revised understanding of amphibian evolution with a whole new taxonomy system.

01 February 2009, 11:00 AM ET

Album: The Great San Francisco Earthquake

A gallery of historical images from the quake and fire that ravaged the city 100 years ago this month.

01 January 2009, 11:00 AM ET

Expedition Everest

Scientists see amazing wildlife and new species in a remote corner of the planet in a project led by Conservation International and Disney's Animal Kingdom.