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  1. A male parma wallaby is show sitting on grass. Its head is turned to the right, looking at something behind the camera.

  2. Astronomer Alex Wolszczan stands in front of a multicoloured image depicting space

  3. Protestors outside County Hall.

  4. A 3d rendering group of energy storage systems or battery container units, a set of white blocks in a green field.

  5. Three young, sandy-coloured lions playing in a meadow.

  6. A seahorse is swimming in a plastic bucket of sea water. The seahorse is in profile and its spiny back is visible along with its horse-shaped head and curled tail .The bucket is standing on granite. There are letters written around the bucket, BUC are visible.

  7. Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives a speech on economic growth at Siemens Healthineers, in Eynsham, Oxford. Picture date: Wednesday January 29, 2025.

  8. The W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

  9. A clear plastic bottle sits on a sandy beach, with water in the background

  10. Representatives from Natural England and Newcastle University at the launch of the new volunteer, community, and nature research science hub at Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve. The crowd is kneeling and standing on a sandy beach.

  11. The Whitesands area of Dumfries in deep brown water from the nearby River Nith. A taxi stance sign is partially submerged and there are boarded-up shops and a police van in the distance.

  12. Researcher Tomoki Kojima of Japan accepts the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology, wearing a dark blazer and white shirt while surrounded by fake flies attached to sticks.

  13. A smiling bearded man makes a thumbs up signs. He is wearing pink rubber gloves, waders and a yellow t-shirt. He is stood in a boggy river bed

  14. Shankar, the lone African elephant in Delhi's zoo, standing in an open area, which was part of his solitary enclosure, in 2021

  15. A close-up shot of a butterfly on the purple flower of a thistle. Next to it, also head-on with it's face in the same flower, is a bee. They are all in focus, the background is a blurred green

  16. Two Black-headed Gull chicks stand next to an adult bird on a stony mound at West Hayling.

  17. Rachel Edmonds wears a bright pink T-shirt and Alice band and black trousers and stands next to a bright pink butcher's van, showing her company details and images of animals. She has her hand on the top of the van and she is smiling. A logo on the van reads "the pink lady".

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  19. An aerial photograph of an urban area framed by trees and with more in gardens

  20. A large field surrounded by mature trees and bushes. The sky is grey and full of clouds.

  21. Two women stand outside Kent County Council's offices in Maidstone holding placards. One says "if you say you are sceptical of man-made climate change you are either a liar or a fool and certainly a coward", the other says "Reform UK funded by fossil fuel billionaires."

  22. The bracelet is gold and adorned with a blue, round bead

  23. The image shows a digital scan of a human brain - seen from above. You can make our the outlines and folks of the cortex.

  24. Andrew Muir standing in a field on Divis Mountain on a sunny day. He has short, dark, greying hair and glasses. He is wearing a brown wax jacket, a blue shirt and a green tie. There is grassland and a large tree behind him.