Feast Your Eyes on a Selection of the Year’s Most Breathtaking Wildlife Photos

London ’s Natural History Museum will reveal its Wildlife Photographer of the Year display on October 13 , featuring 100 images showcasing the biodiversity of our planet and how organisms interact . The chosen 100 images are the winners selected out of almost 50,000 entries submitted from 95 different countries , according to a museum release .

“ We are facing pressing biodiversity and clime crisis , and picture taking is a powerful accelerator for alteration , ” said Doug Gurr , the museum ’s director , in the dismission . “ The Wildlife lensman of the Year exhibition unwrap some of nature ’s most fantastic sights whilst offering hope and achievable actions visitors can take to help protect the raw world . ”

The icon above , for example , shows a deer cuticle mushroom-shaped cloud — a wood - rotting fungus — pass around its spores . In the follow glide you may check out some of the other extremely remember image from the upcoming exhibition .

A possum in Queensland chomps on a cicada, strewing bits of it on the windowsill.