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Picked from a record 60,636 entries, the first images from the Natural History Museum’s wildlife photographer of the year competition have been released. The photographs, which range from a lion facing down a cobra to magnified mould spores, show the diversity, beauty and complexity of the natural world and humanity’s relationship with it. The winners will be announced on 14 October
Main image: No Place Like Home shows a brown-throated three-toed sloth clinging to a concrete fencepost in El Tanque, in Costa Rica’s Alajuela province. It was taken by Emmanuel Tardy, from France, who watched traffic slow to a crawl as the sloth crossed the road. Photograph: Emmanuel Tardy/2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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