SpaceX and NASA Launch of the PACE spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Brevard County, Florida on February 8, 2024. Photo shows launch and booster landing back at CCSFS about 7 minutes 30 seconds after launch. In the foreground is one the new modular lifeguard stands at Minuteman Causeway, replacing the old wooden tower. (Photo by Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via USA Today Network)

A five-month-old cheetah seated in the back of a Land Cruiser growls at an outstretched hand after being taken from traffickers in Ethiopia and driven to Harirad, Somaliland, in 2020. This photo is part of the work of more than 100 artists in Why We Photograph Animals, a new collection of wildlife photography that aims to help understand why people have photographed animals at different points in history and what it means in the present. (Photo by Nichole Sobecki/Thames & Hudson)

Two people ride a motorcycle as a Taiwanese Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jet approaches for landing at an air force base in Hsinchu in northern Taiwan on May 23, 2024. China on May 23 encircled Taiwan with naval vessels and military aircraft in war games aimed at punishing the self-ruled island after its new president vowed to defend democracy. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)

The Knights of Middle England equestrian stunt display team perform ahead of the first match on July 13, 2024. The British Beach Polo Championships, or “sand polo”, returns to the exclusive Sandbanks peninsula near Poole, Dorset. Spectators can appreciate the horsemanship, speed and gladiatorial nature of polo at the largest beach polo event in the world. (Photo by Max Willcock/Bournemouth News)

Two grasshoppers on the Shark Valley Hiking Trail, at the Everglades National Park near Miami, Florida, USA, 12 August 2025. Located in the southernmost part of Florida, the Everglades wetland is recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the most unique ecosystems in the world due to its unparalleled biodiversity. A lawsuit over the potential environmental impact of the construction of “Alligator Alcatraz” has halted further construction on this new migrant detention center. (Photo by Cristóbal Herrera/EPA)

Young cheetahs eat meat at The Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) center in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, on August 13, 2013. The CCF started breeding Anatolian livestock dogs to promote cheetah-friendly farming after some 10,000 big cats – the current total worldwide population – were killed or moved off farms in the 1980s. Up to 1,000 cheetahs were being killed a year, mostly by farmers who saw them as livestock killers. But the use of dogs has slashed losses for sheep and goat farmers and led to less retaliation against the vulnerable cheetah. (Photo by Jennifer Bruce/AFP Photo)

The festival marks the end of the monsoon season and beginning of autumn. More than hundred girls under the age of nine gathered for the tradition of worshiping young pre-pubescent girls as manifestations of the divine female energy. The ritual holds a strong religious significance in Newar community. It is a community affair held primarily to save small girls from diseases and bad luck in the years to come. Photo: A young Nepalese girl dressed as a Kumari or living Goddess, smiles for camera as she waits for Kumari puja at Hanuman Dhoka, Basantapur Durbar Square in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, September 17, 2013. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)