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Nelumbo nucifera is known by a number of common names, including blue lotus, Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, and sacred water-lily.

Stargazer Lilyen

Flower and leaves of Lantana camara

The giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus), also known as the brindle bass , bumblebee grouper and as the Queensland grouper in Australia, is the largest bony fish found in coral reefs, and the aquatic emblem of Queensland, Australia

The paradise fish or paradise gouramis (Macropodus opercularis), are small freshwater labyrinth fish found in ditches and paddy fields in East Asia, ranging from the Korean Peninsula to Northern Vietnam.

Valentinni's sharpnose puffer, Canthigaster valentini, is a pufferfish of the genus Canthigaster, and can be found in reefs throughout the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. It reaches a maximum length of 11 cm. It is also referred to as a black saddled toby.

Freshwater fish from South America and popular aquarium fish

Sawfishes are a family of marine animals related to sharks and rays. Their most striking appearance is a long, toothy snout.

The spotted hawkfish can reach a maximum length of 12.5cm. They are red-pink and white in color and they have tassles on the tip of their dorsal fins.

Barred spirals differ from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not spiral all the way into the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the nucleus at its center.

NASA,ESA Hubble Space Telescope has trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104).

Against a stunning backdrop of thousands of galaxies, this odd-looking galaxy with the long streamer of stars appears to be racing through space, like a runaway pinwheel firework.

Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on NASA, ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a spectacular pair of galaxies engaged in a celestial dance of cat and mouse.

The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194) appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust.

Although the species is commonly referred to as the Barbary Ape, the Barbary Macaque is a true monkey, not an ape. Confusion as to the name could have arisen from the fact that apes are tailless, as is the Barbary Macaque.

The howler monkeys (genus Alouatta monotypic in subfamily Alouattinae) are among the largest of the New World monkeys. Nine species are currently recognised. Previously classified in the family Cebidae, they are now placed in the family Atelidae.

The Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is a tail-less macaque. Found in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco with a small, possibly introduced, population in Gibraltar, the Barbary Macaque is one of the best-known Old World monkey species.

Squirrel monkeys live in the tropical forests of Central and South America. Their range extends from Costa Rica through central Brazil and Bolivia.

A portrait of a monkey

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada.

The Rogue River is a river located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Oregon, flowing from the Cascade Range to the Pacific Ocean.

Trango Towers

Laila Peak (Hushe Valley), 6096m, (Gondogoro Glacier Area, Central Karakoram, Pakistan)

West Mitten Butte Monument Valley, view northeastward from Arizona to Utah, USA.

Canyon of Öxarárfoss, Þingvellir National Park, Iceland

Himalaya from the International Space Station.

The Gothafoss, waterfall of the gods, is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in Iceland.

The Gothafoss (Icelandic: waterfall of the gods) in winter is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in Iceland.

Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, a small island 28 miles off the coast of Cornwall in the United Kingdom

The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.

The American Bison is a bovine mammal, also commonly known as the American Buffalo, or simply buffalo, something of a misnomer as it is only distantly related to either of the two true buffaloes, the Water Buffalo and the African Buffalo.

Bottlenose dolphin of the NMMP on mineclearance operations, with locator beacon.

The Common Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri sciureus) is a small New World primate from the Cebidae (squirrel monkey) family, and native to ten different countries of South America: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.

The Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) is a tail-less macaque. This monkey is yellowish-brown to grey with lighter undersides, growing to a maximum size of 75 cm (30 in) and 13 kg (29 lb).

Close up of hibiscus petal, probably Hibiscus rosa-sinensis