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Common wasps, such as this female, also use their stingers to deposit eggs.

A humpback whale swims off Antarctica. The species was among the hundreds of whales observed feeding off Coronation Island, north of the Antarctic Peninsula, in 2022.

Fruiting bodies erupt from a dead moth killed by the cordyceps fungus. The genetically related ophiocordyceps fungus similarly kills insects, but first makes its host body do its bidding.

Common frog tadpoles consume another tadpole. The behavior is most common when resources are scarce.

Gloomy octopus (Octopus tetricus) swimming

An Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, also known as a Chinese white dolphin, leaping on the western side of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, with ship traffic visible in the background.

A female great gray owl swoops down onto the snow in Finland.

A sample green algae, Caulerpa crassifolia, collected from Lizard Island near Queensland, Australia. There are thousands of different algae species found around the world, and scientists hope some will help feed a growing planet.

A sunfish (Mola alexandrini) swims alongside pilotfish off northern New Zealand.

Olm embryos often don’t hatch into salamanders, but Postojna cave has recently been the site of above-average birth rates.