Images Dated 25th May 2006

A wasp (Euurobracon yokahamae)

A wasp (Euurobracon yokahamae) female plunging the very long ovipositor into the larva of a White-striped longhorned beetle (Batocera lineolata) that is in a cavity in the bark. Japan

Braconidae, Gregarious, Hymenoptera, Insect, Parasite, Parasitic, Parasitoid, Populus Longicorn Beetle, Wasps

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swimming over a sandy bottom, Roatan Island

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swimming over a sandy bottom, Roatan Island, Bay Islands, Honduras Carribean. Captive dolphins used in spectacle; they go out the fence for some minutes a day to meet divers

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Animal, Animalia, Biodiversity Hotspot, Biodiversity Hotspots, Bottle Nose Dolphins, Bottle Nosed Dolphin, Bottlenose Dolphin, Bottlenosed Dolphin, Caribbean Sea, Central America, Cetacea, Ceteacean, Common Bottlenose Dolphin, Delphinidae, Dolphin, Honduras, Horizontal, Latin America, Mammal, Mammalia, Marine, Ocean, Oceanic Dolphin, Odontoceti, Portrait, Saltwater, Seabed, The Caribbean, Tropical, Tursiops, Tursiops Truncatus, Two, Underwater, Vertebrate, Water, Wildlife

Jupiter from Europa

Jupiter from Europa. Artwork of the surface of Europa, with Jupiter, Io, Ganymede, Callisto and the Sun in the sky. Io is seen in the plane of the ring system, and eruption plumes from its volcanoes can be seen. Europa is one of the moons of Jupiter. The surface of Europa is made of water ice. There are no large impact craters; it is thought that meteorites make a crater which fills with liquid water and then freezes. Large cracks criss-cross the surface, through which water may well up and freeze. Such activity means the surface is constantly refreshed and smoothed. Europa is thought to have a huge ocean of liquid water beneath the ice. If there is geothermal activity at the seabed, then life similar to that around hydrothermal vents on Earth may exist there

© DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY