Powerful Animal Kingdom: 10 majestic photos

Powerful Animal Kingdom: 10 majestic photos

"Apollo Landing" by Emelin Dupieux An Apollo butterfly lands on an oxeye daisy as twilight approaches.

"A Caring Hand" by Douglas Gimesy An orphaned grey-headed flying fox pup lays on a "mumma roll" after being fed special formula milk. At three weeks old, she was.

"Deep Feelers" by Laurent Ballesta Laurent saw a bizarre sight—a thriving population of thousands of narwhal shrimps—in cold-water black coral in deep waters off the French Mediterranean coast.

"Lynx on the Threshold" by Sergio Marijuán On a farm in the eastern Sierra Morena region of Spain, a juvenile Iberian lynx rests in the doorway of the abandoned hayloft where it was nurtured.

"Up for Grabs" by Jack Zhi A young white-tailed kite in southern California lunges out to seize a live mouse from the grasp of its father, who is watching from above.

"The Great Swim" by Buddhilini de Soyza Dilini worried that the Tano Bora coalition of male cheetahs wouldn't survive their leap into Kenya's Maasai Mara's rushing Talek River.

"Mushroom Magic" by Juergen Freund Juergen discovered the ghost fungus on a dead tree in the Queensland rainforest on a summer night during the full moon, following monsoon rain.

"Net Loss" by Audun Rikardsen Off the coast of Norway, a slick of dead and dying herrings covers the water's surface in the wake of a fishing boat.

"Toxic Design" by Gheorghe Popa Gheorghe was surprised by this striking feature of a little river in the Geamana Valley of the Apuseni Mountains in Romania.

"Storm Fox" by Jonny Armstrong The fox was actively looking for dead sockeye salmon in the shallows—salmon that had spawned but had perished.