18 striking photos from this year’s best wildlife photographers
From western toad tadpoles to glowing wetlands, this year’s winners capture nature’s beauty—and its fragility.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 opens for entries today!
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is one of the most prestigious photography competitions in the world, showcasing the very best images of the natural world. Celebrating its 61st anniversary, the 2025 competition opens for entries today.
Here’s who won Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The making of ‘The Swarm of Life’ “The winning image, ‘The Swarm of Life’ by Canadian photojournalist Shane Gross, was chosen from a record-breaking 59,228 entries,
13 memorable and metal Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners
Credit: Hikkaduwa Liyanage Prasantha Vinod / Wildlife Photographer of the Year In a village where forests once grew, a tiger lounges on a grassy hillside. India’s Western Ghats has a stable population of the majestic big cats,
The best photos from this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards
The winners of the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards are out and have once again managed to capture the world’s best images of our planet’s stunning, and often vulnerable,
See 15 Winning Images From the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest
From migrating tadpoles to peaceful monkeys to very determined ants, the winning images of the 60th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest display rare wonders of the natural world that many people never get to see.
Here are the Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Canada’s Shane Gross has won the annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition with his backlit image of tadpoles underwater. Gross beat stiff competition from a record-breaking 59,228 entries to take the award.
Winning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023
Meet the award-winning photographers from this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition as they discuss their stunning shots
Meet Piggy, the most famous rescue pig in China
Abandoned at an airport in China, then adopted by a photographer, Piggy the piglet grew up in front of the camera—and changed ...
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How this National Geography photographer brings underwater animals' stories to the surface
The world’s oceans are full of life and interesting species. But they’re also threatened and, in some ways, misunderstood.
Hikers find clue to 100-year-old mystery of mountaineer who vanished on Mount Everest
Jimmy Chin, Erich Roepke and Mark Fisher ventured up the North Face of Mount Everest to film a documentary, National ...
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Partial remains of British climber believed found 100 years after Everest ascent
Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a British mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the ...
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National Geographic team may have discovered the foot of a famed Mount Everest climber
A National Geographic team found the boot and foot of whom it suspects to be Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, a 22-year-old climber who ...
From the pages of Vogue to WWII battlefields—who was photographer Lee Miller?
The legendary Vogue model-turned-war correspondent is the subject of a new film depicting how she broke barriers both in front of and behind the camera.