The Sleeping Polar Bear on “Ice Bed” was adjudged the winner. All five pictures will be exhibited at the Natural History Museum in London until June 30, 2024.
Moon jellyfish in a fjord outside Tromsø, in northern Norway, illuminated by the aurora borealis
Image: Audun Rikardsen
Balkan pond turtle with dragonfly on its nose
Image: Tzahi Finkelstein
Polar bear sleeping on an iceberg off Norway’s Svalbard archipelago
Image: Nima Sarikhani
Murmuration in the Roman sky in the shape of a giant bird
Image: Daniel Dencescu
Two lionesses in Kenya's Maasai Mara Mara grooming a cub
Image: Mark Boyd