Best Photos from The Natural World

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Seahorses are displayed at an endangered species
exhibition at London Zoo. (Photo by Dan
Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Lightning flashes around the ash plume of the
Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near
Entrelagos, Chile. (Photo by Carlos
Gutierrez/Reuters)
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Marine life is rich in the Indonesian waters of
Raja Ampat between the Pacific and Indian
oceans.(Photo by Ebram Harimurti/AFP/Getty
Images)
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Clouds roll in and out of Paris, Texas, behind
the Eiffel Tower replica. (Photo by Sam
Craft/The Paris News via Associated Press)
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A zebra stands in its enclosure in the Berlin
zoo. (Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Abyssinian Colobus baby yawns at the Nogeyama
Zoological Gardens in Yokohama, Japan. (Photo
by Itsuo Inouye/Associated Press)
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A snake at a snake farm in Zisiqiao village, also
known as the snake town, in Zhejiang Province,
China. Residents raise more than 3 million snakes
a year for food and medicinal purposes. (Photo
by Aly Song/Reuters)
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A lion's mane jellyfish swims beneath the waters
at the Farne Islands, England. The archipelago of
16 to 28 separate islands (depending on the tide)
off Northumberland is a summer home to many kinds
of wildlife. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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A female Amur tiger, Iris, licks its 7-week-old
cub during one of their first walks in an
open-air cage at the Royev Ruchey zoo in
Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The Amur tiger is an
endangered species. (Photo by Ilya
Naymushin/Reuters)
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A swarm of bees, partly loaded with pollen,
returns to its hive in Frankfurt am Main,
Germany. (Photo by Frank Rumpenhorst/AFP/Getty
Images)
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A water bird flies over a Danube Delta canal next
to Tulcea city, east of Bucharest. (Photo by
Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images)
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A rare baby Siamese crocodile hatches from an egg
at the Lao Zoo outside Vientiane, Laos. Last
month, 20 baby crocodiles were hatched from eggs
found in a lake in southern Laos they will
eventually be released into the wild. (Photo by
Wildlife Conservation Society/Associated Press)
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A buffalo cools off in a pond in the outskirts of
Jammu in Kashmir. (Photo by Mukesh
Gupta/Reuters)
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Two 3-month-old crowned lemurs lay on their
mother's back at the zoo in Mulhouse, France.
Every year there are about 250 to 350 births at
the Mulhouse zoo. (Photo by Sebastien
Bozon/AFP/Getty Images)
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Horses fight during the Rapa Das Bestas
traditional event in Sabucedo, Spain. Hundreds of
wild horses are rounded up, trimmed, and groomed
in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia on the
first weekend of July. (Photo by Miguel
Vidal/Reuters)
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A swan walks through a green field in
Kamp-Lintfort, Germany. (Photo by Roland
Weihrauch/AFP/Getty Images)
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A one-week-old jaguar cub plays with her mother
Rosa Salvaje at the National Zoo in Managua,
Nicaragua. (Photo by Esteban Felix/Associated
Press)
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A chameleon waits to be weighed and measured in
the reptile house at the London Zoo. Every year
the keepers record the heights and weights of
more than 750 different species in the
International Species Information System, where
they can be shared with zoos across the world.
(Photo by Ki Price/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iblis, an Asiatic lion, plays with a recycled
Christmas tree in his enclosure at the Chester
Zoo in England. Unsold Christmas trees donated to
the zoo are used in the animal enrichment
program. (Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters)
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A pony grazes in a meadow at sunset in Lausanne,
Switzerland. (Photo by Fabrice
Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
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A murmuration of starlings fill the evening sky
above Gretna, Scotland. (Photo by Scott
Heppell/Associated Press)
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Water drops cling to the bottom of a leaf in
Harrisonburg, Va. (Photo by Justin Falls/Daily
News Record, via Associated Press)
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Kamchatka brown bear Mascha and one of her two
3-month-old cubs nuzzle in Hagenbecks Zoo in
Hamburg, Germany. (Photo by Fabian
Bimmer/Reuters)
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Ana Julia Torres kisses Jupiter, a lion rescued
from a circus 12 years ago, at Villa Lorena
shelter, in Cali, Colombia. Torres, 52, a
teacher, founded the shelter, which protects
about 600 animals seized from drug traffickers,
circuses, animal traffickers, or abandoned by
their owners. (Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty
Images)
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Lesser flamingoes rest on their only breeding
ground, Lake Natron, at the foot of Ol Doinyo
Lengai in Tanzania. (Photo by Tony
Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)
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