Emperor penguins gathered together to keep their chicks warm in these pictures. Marine scientist Frederique Oliver snapped the protective parents in Antarctica as they huddled against the huge winds.The adorable birds have to battle temperatures on -20 degrees Celsius as well as winds of up to 40 knots on the ice. (Photo by Frederique Oliver/Caters News)

A surfer braves a large wave at Queenscliff in Sydney, Monday, June 6, 2016. Storms have lashed Australia's easter coast for several days whipping up waves as high as 12 meters (40 feet), which caused serious beach erosion and forced hundreds of coastal residents to evacuate. (Photo by Rick Rycroft/AP Photo)

A man carries a bag on his back in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, January 26, 2016. According to traffic police, over 2.9 billion trips will be made around China during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, which started on January 24. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

The Big Island's Mauna Loa Volcano erupts on November 28, 2022 on the Island of Hawaii. For the first time in almost 40 years, the biggest active volcano in the world erupted prompting an emergency response on the Big Island. (Photo by Andrew Richard Hara/Getty Images)

A male Sumatran elephant calf named Rocky Balboa, born on May 25, 2024, stands next to its mother, a 40-year-old elephant named Lembang, at the Surabaya Zoo during the introduction of the 3-month-old calf to the public in Surabaya on August 31, 2024. (Photo by Juni Kriswanto/AFP Photo)

Bowie Snow runs in the tulips at Strawberry Fields, Lifton, Devon on April 13, 2025. The South West's largest tulip festival takes place across April, showcasing 250,000 Tulips with over 40 varieties across three acres at Strawberry Fields in UK. (Photo by William Dax/South West News Service)

Macaques huddle together for warmth at a hot spring in Nagano, Japan in the last decade of December 2023. Known as snow monkeys, the animals soak in the 40°C water every day during cold weather, spending their bathtime grooming, snoozing and playing on visitors’ camera tripods. (Photo by David Lazar/Animal News Agency)

Jerry Dennehy from Tralee Co Kerry with his horses Mutt and Jeff at the Under 40 Horse Ploughing Class on the first day of the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co. Laois on September 20, 2022. (Photo by Tom Honan for The Irish Times)