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Jake Stout (USA) encounters a snapping turtle as it glides over lake vegetation in New Hampshire.
Common snapping turtles have a fearsome reputation.
But Jake finds them to be calm and inquisitive.
He’s photographed them in this…

Jake Stout (USA) encounters a snapping turtle as it glides over lake vegetation in New Hampshire.
Common snapping turtles have a fearsome reputation.
But Jake finds them to be calm and inquisitive.
He’s photographed them in this…

Bertie Gregory (UK) freeze-frames the moment fledgling emperor penguin chicks walk along the edge of an ice shelf.
Bertie spent two months with the penguin colony and saw most chicks using ice ramps to descend to sea level…

Fortunato Gatto (Italy) chances upon an icy puddle in a south Icelandic bog, where frozen patterns form the shape of a swan.
Fortunato is fascinated by the patterns and textures created in the ice.
He calls this a…

Griet Van Malderen (Belgium) sets the scene as Gamma, a female lion, guards a Cape fur seal carcass.
Protecting a seal carcass, Gamma waits for her family against a tempestuous Skeleton Coast backdrop.
Around 80 lions live…

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice and set a new goalscoring record but his Portugal side could only draw with Hungary to miss a chance to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.
Ronaldo, 40, has now scored 41 goals in World Cup qualifying to move clear of…

There’s a particular kind of chaos that occurs when fall break hits and thousands of college seniors descend upon Las Vegas. Apple Martin is in that chaos —…

Andrew Santino was seen chatting and smiling with Taylor Swift during the Kansas City Chiefs game on Sunday. The…

The nervy win in Dublin moves the Republic of Ireland up to third in Group F, a point behind Hungary, who boosted their chances of securing a play-off place with a dramatic late draw against Portugal.
The group is delicately poised with two games…

Spooky season is in full swing, and this extends to Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday with security updates for a frightful 175 Microsoft vulnerabilities, plus an additional 21 non-Microsoft CVEs. And even scarier than the sheer number of bugs:…