We're delighted to reveal Part 2 of a beautiful series of wildlife photography taken by Olivia Binfield, an MSci Zoology student at UCL!
A wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) fights with a group of northern giant petrels (Macronectes halli) over the last scraps of their meal. Northern giant petrels are often referred to as ‘vultures of the sea’ - highly aggressive and highly opportunistic, feasting on everything from seal carcasses to penguin chicks.
The skin of a sea cucumber is surprisingly beautiful. Ossicles, tiny, calcified plates, are a diagnostic feature of the echinoderm phyla. They serve as structural support for their buccal tube feet. A close-up shot of a Nicobar pigeon’s wing. Bird feathers are pennaceous, meaning they consist of a solid central stalk called a rachis and branching vanes or blades. These vanes are made of interlocking barbules of keratin, the same material as human fingernails. Seahorse, such as this Hippocampus whitei, are famed for their unusual reproductive strategy. Males are the ones who give birth and become pregnant, protecting their young in specialised brood pouches. The compound eyes of a fly are an engineering marvel. Flies form mosaic-like images from thousands of individual lenses, enabling them to process movement incredibly rapidly.
