Hannah Osborne

Image of a fish catching a lift on a jellyfish elevator is one of the winners of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.

A huge volcanic fissure appeared in Iceland on Dec. 18, spewing lava up to 100 feet into the air — and the eruption has been captured in incredible pictures.

The massive, extinct millipede Arthropleura has been brought back to life in a stunning reconstruction for the Netflix series "Life on Our Planet."

First of its kind footage captured for National Geographic's "Incredible Animal Journeys" shows a barn swallow caught in a sandstorm as part of its migration through the Sahara Desert.

Almost two weeks after the town of Grindavík was evacuated over fears of a volcanic eruption, the magma dike beneath Iceland still poses a high risk, with earthquakes and ground deformation ongoing.

Magma building beneath Iceland may break through the surface in a volcanic eruption, sending lava flows toward the Blue Lagoon, the Svartsengi geothermal power plant and the town of Grindavík.

Four huge deposits from supervolcano eruptions over the last 40,000 years have been discovered at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is now in a new era of volcanic eruptions that will last for up to 500 years, and the building magma beneath Sundhnúkur and Grindavík is part of this millenia-long cycle.

Authorities in Iceland have warned that a volcanic eruption is imminent, with the town of Grindavík, close to the country's famous Blue Lagoon resort, evacuated.

A newly-formed island off the coast of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean was spotted in satellite images after it emerged during an underwater volcanic eruption at the end of October.

A megapod of dolphins with thousands of individuals has been captured on video hunting flying fish off the coast of Costa Rica.

Winning images from The Nature Conservancy's 2023 Global Photo Contest include a wolf spider in a Maryland park with a hat made of her own babies.

Footage filmed 1,225 feet beneath the ocean surface shows a goosefish strolling along the seafloor before turning its bulbous head and bulging eyes straight at the camera.

A crocodile in Kenya's Mara River was filmed thrashing around with the corpse of a baby hippo in its jaws in unusual sighting. It is unclear if the crocodile killed the calf or if it snatched a stillborn.

An striking video of developing neurons won the 2023 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition.

The weird gold dome-shaped object was found during an NOAA expedition to the Gulf of Mexico and is now being preserved in ethanol until it can be sent for laboratory analysis.

The footage of a puma hunting sheep was captured with thermal imaging cameras in the Patagonian wilderness as part of a new National Geographic show.

The enormous alligator was over 13 feet long and weighed 920 pounds — the second heaviest ever to be caught in Florida.

The golden, dome-shaped object was discovered in the Gulf of Alaska during an NOAA expedition and after bringing it to the surface, scientists still have no idea what it is.

The huge, ancient whale skull was discovered during a summer dig on a high school student's family property where fossilized shark teeth had previously been found.

A series of videos taken on a roadside in Canada show a grizzly bear attempting to drag a dead black bear up a hill as it bites and mauls the corpse.

"While it is not uncommon to encounter insects parasitized by 'zombie' fungi in the wild, it is a rarity to witness large spiders succumbing to these fungal conquerors," said evolutionary biologist Roberto García-Roa, who took the photograph.

These tiny crustaceans, also known as boxer crabs, use the venomous anenomes to protect themselves from predators and to eat with. They also wave them around while fighting with each other.

The orca "slurped in the liver and then the whale shark just fell and descended down, with no movement," James Moskito of Ocean Safaris told Live Science.

"Alien Sharks: Strange New Worlds" — part of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week — gives viewers an extraordinarily rare insight into how sharks mate in the wild.