This is a black and white photo of Charles Darwin, a legendary scientist famous for his work on evolution and natural selection. Check out our Charles Darwin facts page for more information.

An image of "Nature Exposing Herself to Science", created by Louis-Ernest Barrias in 1899 (Marble and onyx, height 200 cm).

This picture helps celebrate Earth Day by recreating a world map with a theme based around trees and a green, natural image. Earth Day is held every year on April 22 to help promote environmental awareness.

This NASA image shows the temperature trend in Antarctica between 1957 and 2006.

This photo features a wooden barn in the foreground and Grand Teton in the background. Grand Teton is the highest mountain in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA.

This beautiful satellite image shows the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system and also the world's largest living structure. It is located off the coast of north-eastern Australia....

This beautiful image shows a unique looking iceberg in Greenland. There is a blue sky and the iceberg reflects off the cold water.

A beautiful photo looking out over Monument Valley, a region near the border of Utah and Arizona famous for its strangely shaped hills (called buttes).

After flooding and oil contamination from a local refinery destroyed much of a nearby town, a contractor works hard to continue the oil spill cleanup job.

This image helps highlight the problem of water pollution that can effect various rivers, lakes and other sources of water.

This diagram helps explain the processes involved when a volcano erupts, injecting aerosols and gases high into the air and up in to the stratosphere. The chemicals inside the ash can create acid rain and lead to ozone destruction.

This close up photo of a flower shows just how beautiful nature can be. The gorgeous colors and elegant petals create a sight that is pleasing to the eyes while at the same time a reminder of nature's timeless beauty.

The aurora borealis (also known as the northern lights) is a spectacular light display that can be seen at night in regions near the North Pole (auroras can also be seen near the South Pole). Auroras occur because of charged particles...

This image is of French physicist Blaise Pascal. He developed work on natural and applied sciences as well being a skilled mathematician and religious philosopher.

This picture shows the skull and spine of a scary looking Deinonychus skeleton, the photo was taken at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Deinonychus was related to the Velociraptor and lived during the early Cretaceous Period...

This picture gives a close up view of a Pentaceratops skull on display at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Pentacertaops was a horned dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period (around 75 million years ago). Its name means...

This drawing shows the possible appearance of Afrovenator, a dinosaur from the mid Jurassic Period (around 160 million years ago). The name Afroventor means 'African Hunter', referring to the area they lived and the fact that they were...

This picture shows red apples placed in a pyramid to show the natural counting numbers 1, 2, 3 and so on.

This black and white photo shows French chemist Louis Pasteur. He was famous for his many discoveries related to the immune system and the nature of diseases. Check out our Louis Pasteur facts page for more information on this famous...

Provides information on Charles Darwin, the first of the evolutionary biologists and the originator of the concept of natural selection.

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science. In physiology and physiological...

Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954), zoologist and professor of natural science. Agnes Mary Claypole Moody had a twin sister, Edith Jane Claypole (1870-1915), who was also a biologist

The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the...