A participant wearing a costume and make-up attends a Halloween parade at Walibi park in Wavre, Belgium, October 25, 2019. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)
Migle Politike (left) with son Aaron and friend Goda Zubkaityte on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 stop to look at the Singing Ringing Tree, a musical sculpture designed to look like a windswept tree, at Crown Point overlooking Burnley, Lancashire, UK. The wind-powered musical sculpture emits a low, tuneful song when the wind blows. (Photo by Martin Rickett/PA Wire)
A photographer with a hidden camera took 2,500 photos before this elusive badger was ready for his close-up in September 2020. (Photo by Andy Swinden/BNPS)
Rockhopper penguins live up to their name as they navigate the rugged coastline of Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. (Photo by Thomas P. Peschak)
The thorny dragon or thorny devil (Moloch horridus) is an Australian lizard, also known as the mountain devil, the thorny lizard, or the moloch. This is the sole species of genus Moloch. The thorny devil grows up to 20 cm (8.0 in) in length, and it can live up to 20 years.
Members of a cheerleading team warm- up during the Russian Cheerleading Championship of students in Moscow on November 20, 2016. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)