The Big Picture 2025
From the beautiful to the bizarre, this annual photographic showcase shines a light on some of our planet’s most breathtaking species and places.
Krista Langlois's Latest Articles
A Jealous, Leggy Lover
For female millipedes, mating comes with a lot of baggage.
Splitting Hares
In Sweden, researchers working to save a rare variety of mountain hare think conservation should focus on genes, not just species.
One in a Million
Beetles are the most diverse group of animals on the planet—and that diversity expresses itself in extraordinary and sometimes preposterous ways.
Past the Salt
In San Francisco’s salty South Bay, an ambitious wetlands restoration project is seeking to balance a return to the ecological past with the realities of a changing future.
Seeing Spots
Spotted eagle rays’ distinctive markings are turning out to be important identifiers, and may become essential for their protection.
Are You My Mother?
Before a timber rattlesnake mom leaves her babies to fend for themselves, she passes on an important piece of information: her scent.
Convenient Conveyance
For a jellyfish, there are few hitchhikers more harmful than this juvenile brown paper nautilus, and for the nautilus, few rides could be more handy.
Billfish Bounty
A striped marlin slices through a shoal of baitfish, a beautiful reminder of the struggle between predator and prey—as well as the fragility and importance of healthy ecosystems.
A Novel Demise
Although we’ve marveled over carnivorous plants for centuries, the plants’ penchant for vertebrate flesh has been largely overlooked.
