Among the winners of the Close Up Photographer of the Year Awards 2025 was a bear in the forest, two stag beetles in an epic ...

Close-up Photographer of the Year is open to all. The annual competition delivers another stunning selection of images from ...

The sixth Close-up Photographer of the Year competition has come to a close in spectacular style with the winners announced ...

Two stag beetles locked in an epic struggle for mating rights, a black widow feasting on its latest victim and a fish snatching life from the jaws of death – the beauty and ferocity of the natural ...

Beetles are the world’s strongest insects. Size for size our female can pull equivalent of six double decker buses. She navigates using sun, moon and even the Milky Way. As she rolls her precious dung ...

The elf owl, the smallest owl in the world, inhabits the deserts of the southwestern US and Mexico. Measuring 12-14 cm and ...

There is hope for one of the UK’s rarest species after a bat that looked like it was “on steroids” was found in Kent for the ...

Awards have been announced, and the results are breathtaking! This year’s competition saw over 11,000 entries from 61 ...

Awards have been announced, and the results are breathtaking! This year’s competition saw over 11,000 entries from 61 countries, showcasing the incredible talent of photographers capturing the hidden ...

If I roll a log, I see beetles biding their time until spring ... I asked the institute’s co-directors, Eleanor and Bert Harris, for a tour of winter life at Clifton. In our two-hour walk ...