Magnificent Frigatebird in flight, Fregata magnificens, North Seymour, Galapagos, Ecuador

Magnificent Frigatebird, Fregata magnificens, North Seymour, Galapagos, Ecuador

Magnificent Frigatebird in flight, Fregata magnificens, North Seymour, Galapagos, Ecuador

Female Magnificent Frigatebird breeding, Fregata magnificens, North Seymour, Galapagos, Ecuador

Blue-footed Booby breeding, Sula nebouxii, North Seymour, Galapagos, Ecuador

Great Frigatebird, Fregata minor, North Seymour, Galapagos, Ecuador

Magnificent Frigatebird, Fregata magnificens, North Seymour, Galapagos, Ecuador

Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) feeding on erupting green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings in the Galapagos, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

Tourists at Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting site at night on Long Beach on Ascension Island, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) tracks left from a female laying eggs the previous night on Long Beach on Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean

Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) hatched egg at Petermann Island, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) adult with chicks on Cuverville Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Imperial shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps), returning to the nest on New Island in the Falkland Islands, South America

Yellow-footed gull (Larus livens), eggs in nest on Isla Coronado, Baja California Sur, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America

Mosquito larvae

Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) hatchlings, which spend 2 - 3 years off the gound in the canopy.

common seadragon (phyllopteryx taeniolatus) voracious hunters, camouflage looking like a piece of floating weed, unique to Australia, wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Indian Ocean, cool temperate waters of Western Australia. MORE INFO: amongst kelp, female seadragon deposits up to 150 eggs into the spongy, soft tissue under the tail of the male seadragon. Once fertilised, eggs incubate about 8 weeks. On hatching, miniature seadragons are independent and will start eating almost immediately.

Young hatchling Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), prior to release in the tree canopy - the natural habitat for first 2 - 3 years.

common seadragon (phyllopteryx taeniolatus) voracious hunters, camouflage looking like a piece of floating weed, unique to Australia, wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Indian Ocean, cool temperate waters of Western Australia. MORE INFO: amongst kelp, female seadragon deposits up to 150 eggs into the spongy, soft tissue under the tail of the male seadragon. Once fertilised, eggs incubate about 8 weeks. On hatching, miniature seadragons are independent and will start eating almost immediately.

Komodo dragon hatchling emerging from megapode mound (Varanus komodoensis) Komodo Is

Cameraman, Mike Pitts, holding Komodo dragon hatchling. Scene behind showing entrance in the megapode mound to film the underground nest.

Young hatchling Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis). one of thirty three eggs only twenty eight hatched.

common seadragon (phyllopteryx taeniolatus) voracious hunters, camouflage looking like a piece of floating weed, unique to Australia, wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Indian Ocean, cool temperate waters of Western Australia. MORE INFO: blue water, female seadragon deposits up to 150 eggs into the spongy, soft tissue under the tail of the male seadragon. Once fertilised, eggs incubate about 8 weeks. On hatching, miniature seadragons are independent and will start eating almost immediately.

Komodo dragon hatchling, 4 days old. Komodo Island, Indonesia. The young climb trees to escape being eaten by adult dragons.

Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) hatchling, which spend 2 - 3 years off the gound in the canopy.

Young hatchling Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis). one of thirty three eggs only twenty eight hatched.

Komodo dragon hatching from egg (Varanus komodoensis) Komodo Is Indonesia. Eggs are laid underground, here under megapode mound.

common seadragon (phyllopteryx taeniolatus) voracious hunters, camouflage looking like a piece of floating weed, unique to Australia, wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Indian Ocean, cool temperate waters of Western Australia. MORE INFO: amongst kelp, female seadragon deposits up to 150 eggs into the spongy, soft tissue under the tail of the male seadragon. Once fertilised, eggs incubate about 8 weeks. On hatching, miniature seadragons are independent and will start eating almost immediately.

Young hatchling Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis). one of thirty three eggs only twenty eight hatched.

Newly hatched blue tit chicks and adult in a nestbox

A herring gull chick pecking its way out of the egg using its egg tooth on the end of its beak

Komodo dragon, 2-day-old (Varanus komodoensis) in Tamarind tree, Komodo Is

Komodo dragon hatchling emerging, Komodo Island, Indonesia. Eggs are laid underground, in this case under a megapode mound, and so hatchlings have to dig themselves out.

Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) hatching, Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil, South America

Young hatchling Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)

Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) hatching, Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil, South America

Gentoo penguin adult (Pygoscelis papua) on hatching egg in Antarctica

Newly hatched blue tit chicks and adult in a nestbox

Lesser black backed gulls nesting on Walney Island near Barrow in Funress, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Young hatchling Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis), on Arriflex camera, beloning to cameraman Michael Pitts.

Lesser black backed gulls nesting on Walney Island near Barrow in Funress, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) hatchling, which spend 2 - 3 years off the gound in the canopy.

Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) chick hatching from egg, Cuverville Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean.

Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) hatchling, which spend 2 - 3 years off the gound in the canopy.

Green sea turtles hatching, Chelonia mydas, Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil.

Butterfly blenny in a fan mussel, Italy

Close up of the eggs of a common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) in an advanced state of maturation; the eyes of the small octopuses can already be seen. The mother takes care of the eggs, protecting and aerating them without stopping, not eating anymore after laying them, and dying immediately after hatching.

A couple of butterfly blenny (Blennius ocellaris) peeps out from inside a fan mussel (Pinna nobilis), that they chose as the nest for hatching their eggs.

Tokay Gecko Hatching

Green Sea Turtle

Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus), hatching from egg, iSimangaliso-Wetland-Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Africa

Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) hatching

Hermann's Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) hatching out of its egg

King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) with abdominal crease during hatching, breeding colony, Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands, South America

moth eggs newly hatched larva Germany

hatching Chaco tortoise (Geochelone chilensis), Gran Chaco Paraguay

An Olive Ridley Sea Turtle throws sand everywhere, while digging the hole where she will lay her eggs in Oaxaca, Mexico.

An Olive Ridley Sea Turtle lays its eggs in the hole she previously dug out, in Oaxaca, Mexico.

An egg with shell cracked on a white background

This male Ring-tailed Cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus aureus) is protecting and incubating it's eggs by carrying them in his mouth, Philippines

spur-tailed Mediterranean land tortoise young Greek tortoises hatching from egg Animals

spur-tailed Mediterranean land tortoise young Greek tortoises hatching from egg Animals

Young mantids newly hatched, French Guiana