Images Dated 17th January 2003

Gentoo penguin feeding chick
Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) adult feeding a 3-week-old chick by regurgitating fish or krill

Adelie penguin with chick
Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) on its pebble nest with a two-day-old chick. Adelie penguins normally raise two chicks. The male and female take turns to incubate the eggs and feed the young

Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) on an ice floe. This large, gregarious relative of the seal has tusks that can reach a metre in length

Rain shower over the Sound of Mull, Scotland
Rain shower over the sound of Mull, with Mull in the background and Morvern in the foreground, Scotland

Mating tortoises (family Testudinae). Photographed in Madagascar

Marine iguana

Flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans) leaping to a tree at night. This arboreal rodent cannot actually fly, but glides from tree to tree on the folds of skin between its front and back legs

Weddell seal mother with pup
Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddelli) female with a four-day-old pup

Empty fat cells, SEM

Motorway traffic in the rain at dusk

Motorway traffic in the rain

Flat-panel computer screen

Euro bank notes

Power station cooling towers
Cooling towers of a coal-fired power station emitting clouds of water vapour. Photographed in Nottingham, England

Mir space station orbiting the Earth. Mir was launched by the USSR in February 1986 and spent 15 years in orbit around the Earth, being used to carry out numerous scientific experiments

True-colour satellite image of Severn estuary, UK
Severn estuary. True-colour satellite image of the estuary of the River Severn, bordered by southwest England (at right) and southeast Wales (at left). North is at top

Giant Sequoia General Sherman
Giant Sequoia. Wide-angle view along the trunk of General Sherman, officially the largest Giant Sequoia tree. The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is the largest living thing in the World

Musk Lorikeet Hobart airport, Tasmania, Australia
DH-2919 Musk Lorikeet Hobart airport, Tasmania, Australia Glossopsitta concinna didimus Don Hadden Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

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