Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa, Africa

Unique architecture by Kasumasa Yamashita, of Face House in Kyoto, Honshu, Japan, Asia

Adult leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), hauled out on ice floe at Dorian Bay near the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Adult bull Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) hauled out on ice near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Male Killer whale (Orcinus orca) with dorsal fin flopped to one side. Snaefellsness Peninsular, Iceland

Colourful handprints on a rock face, ochre-ink art made by the long-vanished Toldense People, Santa Cruz, Argentina

Mouth detail of a colourful and healthy Mushroom coral, Fungia fungites, that is growing on a tropical coral reef in the Philippines. Mushroom coral is unique in the coral world, in that it does not attach itself to the bottom, Philippines

A Dalmatian Pelican with unique eye markings in Greece.