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A Ghana cukooshrike in the rain forest canopy
This colorful, lost bird species hasn’t been seen in 13 years. A photographer just took the “best photos ever taken of this bird” – and the first-ever video

By Hillary K. Grigonis Last updated

BIRDS Researchers working in a West African rainforest captured photos of a vulnerable bird species for the first time since 2013

BIRDS
A critically endangered King Island Scrubtit photographed at Boulder Wildlife Sanctuary, a 200-hectare wildlife refuge on Tasmania’s King Island
“I was confident I’d photographed the right species but given how rare they are, I also had a bit of doubt.” Photographer captures one of Australia’s rarest birds with a last-gen full-frame camera

By Mike Harris Published

News Only 100 King Island scrubtits are thought to exist. Brad Leue set off with the audacious plan to find and photograph one in only a week

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Crab protecting embryos.
Armed with just a compact camera, housing, and a light, a diver returned to the same spot multiple times. Finally, a crab emerged in a “rare moment of maternal care,” snagging major honors

By Alan Palazon Published

OCEAN Italian photographer Andrea Michelutti captured the intimate scene of a harlequin crab tending to her cluster of embryos, earning honors at the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year Awards

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Rare black color red fox portrait in woodland
Michigan confirms unusual fox photo is “an incredibly rare sight” – and could be the only one like it in the region

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

WILDLIFE The Michigan DNR recently confirmed that a photo of an unusually colored fox is a rare melanistic gray fox

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Pink flamingo sitting on lap of man driving car.
Siena Awards Photo Festival 2026: war, human rights and humanity's relationship with nature explored as major photojournalists take stage

By Alan Palazon Published

News The Italian city of Siena once again transforms into a major contemporary photography festival with leading photojournalists including Cinzia Canneri, Pierpaolo Mittica and Jasper Doest exhibiting

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A row of Afghan refugee women in brightly coloured headscarves, most with their faces veiled, stand against a grey concrete wall holding hairdryers triumphantly above their heads, cables dangling.
Why has a photo of women holding hairdryers been awarded Global Peace Image of the Year?

By Tom May Published

Italian photojournalist Silvia Alessi found a highly original way to tell the story of oppression in Afghanistan

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Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in sea, Mexico, Guadalupe Island
“She just rocketed through and then it was over,” says Nat Geo filmmaker on first-ever underwater camera footage of great white shark ripping prey from fishing line at Cape Cod

By Alan Palazon Published

News Brian Skerry, the renowned National Geographic filmmaker, captured the first-ever footage of underwater great white depredation in Cape Cod, Massachusetts where experts say flourishing seal populations have attracted more sharks

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Man falling through air against a cloudy sky
Nadav Kander's photographs show us why sometimes, fog, empty sky and flat water make better pictures than a crowded frame

By Tom May Published

News With subjects ranging from Obama and David Lynch to Chernobyl and the Yangtze, Nadav Kander's photography is a masterclass in less being more

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A young European hamster peers out from inside a wire live trap, while a smiling researcher sits out of focus in the foreground on the left.
A wide-eyed young hamster pauses at the mouth of a wire trap as a conservationist watches on. Christoph Kaula's prize-winning photo tells a small story of hope for one of Europe's rarest mammals

By Tom May Published

NEWS This arresting image highlights how conservationists are fighting to bring the European common hamster back from the brink

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A group of laughing women in headscarves, stained aprons and boots link arms and wave as they march along a cobbled street with tram tracks, while a police officer watches from behind
A policeman directs traffic from a metal bin, Harrow boys queue for sweets in straw boaters, and men on stilts tend the Kent hops: new photo book opens a fascinating window on 1930s Britain

By Tom May Published

NEWS This 616-page hardback gathers together hundreds of archive photographs, many never seen before, of a nation caught between tradition and modernity.

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