In no hurry, an Adelie penguin sniffs the air and stretches, then waddles away. Antarctica 1998.

On a mossy bed, a swarm of ants overwhelms a caterpillar.

Two leaf-cutter ants weave their way back to the nest, each carrying its harvest, a fragment of a green leaf.

Spiky like a mature dandelion bloom, an inflated porcupine fish swims and floats over aquatic plants. 6/18/1996.

World War II planes fill the sky and discharge bundles that fall to earth. Parachutes open to soften the descent, and the paratroopers land with the billowy cloth collapsing around them.

In the camps at Baton Rouge: Victims of the Mississippi flood of 1927 move among a massive field of tents stretching to the horizon. Black women speak to a white worker, who takes notes, and black ...

An exterior shot of the Turnbridge Plantation begins this excerpt from AFRICANS IN AMERICA : The Terrible Transformation. Closeup photography captures an alligator breaching the murky swamp water to ...

A mass of Horseshoe Crabs congregate on the shores of a beach during spawning season. Excerpted from NOVA, "Mystery of Animal Pathfinders."