Scientists travel across the vast and featureless plain and horizon of the Ross Ice Shelf on skidoos towing a radar. Black breasted buzzard Roots sprout from an onion

Roots sprout from an onion into a glass of water in a country kitchen

A Woma Snake coiled on a sand dune with impressive scale banding

A father and son paint model toy soldiers received for Christmas

An opaque glass window diffuses the sunlight in an inner-city apartment bedroom windowsill

A South Polar Skua watches National Geographic photographer Jason Edwards photographing Adeleie Penguins

Scientists travel across the vast and featureless plain and horizon of the Ross Ice Shelf on skidoos towing a radar. Black breasted buzzard Roots sprout from an onionScientists travel across the vast and featureless plain and horizon of the Ross Ice Shelf on skidoos towing a radar. Windless Bight, Ross Ice Shelf, Ross Island, Antarctica.