28/8/08

Icicles drape the sides of an iceberg in the waters around Antarctica. Fifth-largest of the world's continents, Antarctica comprises 5,500,000 square miles (14,245,000 square kilometers) of snow-topped glaciers and ice sheets with less than 5 percent ice-free.
Photograph by Ralph Lee Hopkins
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A gossamer parasol spreads its feathery arms to catch plankton in the Caribbean waters of the Cayman Islands.
Photograph by Emory Kristof
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Blue morpho butterflies, inhabitants of Central and South America's dense forests, can be up to 6 inches (15 centimeters) wide, and the male's iridescent sheen can been seen by humans up to a thousand yards (one kilometer) away. Here, a female floats through a cloud forest in Costa Rica.
Photograph by Michael and Patricia Fogden/Minden Pictures
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