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Photographing animals from a moving boat is tricky unless you follow these top tips to keep your images sharp and your camera dry

By Wendy Evans Published

How to A day out at Longleat Safari Park was a good reminder of the right camera settings to use when shooting from an unsteady, moving platform!

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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

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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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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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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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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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Streetlights shine through the mist as two beavers touch noses, in a wetland on the edge of a building site in Olsztyn, Poland. Here's how Jan Wieczorek photographed this award-winning scene

By Tom May Published

News His stunning monochrome image won the 2026 Rewilding Europe Award. Here's the story behind it.

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Zebra Shark (Stegostoma tigrinum) also known in Thailand as Leopard Shark at Bida pinnacle in Andaman Sea, one of dive sites near Phi Phi island in Krabi, Thailand
“A single camera deployment can reveal something entirely unexpected.” Researchers dropped a camera in the ocean for an hour – and caught footage of a rare shark

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

SHARKS Researchers with National Geographic have captured footage that proves an endangered shark also visits Samoan waters

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Tiger Swallowtail butterfly flying against a defocused background
Researchers filmed butterflies at over 1,000 frames per second. The results suggest butterfly wings aren’t just pretty; they’re optical illusions

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

SCIENCE Researchers shot butterflies taking off in super slo-mo and found the patterned wings may actually be an optical illusion to make predators miss

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Woodpigeon with beak open in what was called an 'unflattering' pose
After a unique viral photo, nature photographer tells us how the "surreal experience" of being blocked on social media was hilarious – and we think he has a point!

By Adam Juniper Published

News Carl Bovis gave an exclusive response to DCW after his photo went viral – becoming known as an 'offensive pigeon'. No, really...

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