Biodiversity

Golden rainforest frog of Panama takes shelter under a small flower.

Bruce Dale
Butterfly specimens in a lab at the National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Rica.

Steve Winter
Monarch butterflies cling to a tree branch on the Monterey Peninsula, California.

James P. Blair
Woman stands in the Makambako Gap in Tanzania.

Piccoli Costanza
An array of seasonally flooded lowlands in Brazil's Pantanal.

Joel Sartore
This black sun coral (Tubastrea micrantha) is off of Limasawa Island near the Philippines.

Ryan Rossotto

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