The imposing mud brick wall of an ancient fortress towers over the desert. Olive pythons

The imposing mud brick wall of an ancient fortress towers over the desert. Olive pythonsThe imposing mud brick wall of an ancient fortress towers over the desert. Narin Castle, Meybod, Meybod County, Yazd Province, Islamic Republic of Iran.

A rare Risso's dolphin surfacing for a breath

An African Elephant in the National Museum of Natural History rotunda

A sign warns of a rare bend in the road

A tourist surveys the vast and endless African savannah from a granite kopje

they are often overlooked even when they are right in front of you

The wrinkled hide of an African Elephant on a plain of spear grass

Silhouette of Little Corellas roosting in a Gum tree

Sri Siva Subramaniya Swami Temple

The enormous blade-like caudal fin of a Whale Shark

An excited bull sticking its tongue out as it bellows a challenge at a bull fight

Sunset over a small tropical island bay in the shadow of Mount Agung

Alpine plants growing over a rack of Barren-ground Caribou antlers on the tundra