Images Dated 19th January 2004

The James Caird setting out for South Georgia

Photographer: Hurley, Frank (1885-1962. Expedition: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17. Leader: Ernest Shackleton. Date: 1914. The relief boat setting out for South Georgia. A group of men launching the lifeboat James Caird, into the sea from the shore of Elephant Island

© Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

Field of small fossil ammomites with a large one

Field of small fossil ammonites with a single large one. Ammonites are extinct aquatic molluscs of the class Cephalopoda. They were abundant in the Mesozoic era, 225-65 millions years ago, and are commonly found in rock strata of that time. They were characterised by a coiled shell divided into many chambers, which acted as an aid to buoyancy. The ammonites died out in the mass extinction 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs also disappeared

© Martin Dohrn/Science Photo Library

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Central common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) two, watching for fish from aerial roots of mangrove tree, Conkouati-Douli National Park, Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), West Africa, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Nigeria, and Congo, in rainforests and open woodland forests

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