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  1. A pale-coloured male lion lies on a rock against a blue and white sky.

  2. A black and white photo of Louis with his second wife Mary Leakey. He is close to the camera and has a small moustache, light coloured hair and is smiling with his mouth closed. His wife has short dark and curly hair. She further behind Louis and also looking at the camera.

  3. Sarah Sibug-Torres is in a lab, kneeling alongside a prototype smart toilet. It looks like an average white toilet but with a panel of buttons on the side. She is wearing glasses, a black top and blazer and is smiling at the camera. She is holding a 3D model of a bio-molecule.

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    A red squirrel leans against a narrow branch while sniffing a leave.

  5. Man - Cameron Anderson - dressed in black, kneeling down and holding a metal detector and an axe head.

  6. A steel truss bridge over a canal in Wolverhampton on a bright day, with a blue sky and a large flare of light in the top-left corner of the photo. Trees line the left-hand side of the canal and are reflected on the water. There is a footpath on the right side.

  7. Resident Malcolm Davies wearing a blue hoody / rubbish strewn across the pavement

  8. A cuttlefish swims across a bed of kelp on the seafloor.

  9. Generic image of an overflowing black bin with black bags of rubbish around it. It sits next to a stone wall with some ivy growing up it.

    10. Arctic vault

    • A small clear viall with a white plastic top and tape around the lid. It is lit against a black background. On the front is a code. Inside it looks great and at the bottom there is a coating of dust.

    • A person peels carrots over a wooden chopping board. They have a bag next to them with the peelings in and with other food waste. In the background there is a sink and plants.

    • A puffin taking off with other puffins in the background.

    • A chef in a white apron in a kitchen looks down.

    • A wooden sign near an entrance to the woods. In white lettering the sign reads: "Culduthel Community Woods". There is a brick wall next to it and vegetation behind it.

    • A large mechanical device with tall stacks connected to other equipment installed in a warehouse being operated by a man in a white coat

    • an oil worker in a red uniform and and hard hat stands on one North Sea platform looking across the water to another platform

    • Two geese with orange feet and bills standing beside a river in Bourton-on-the-Water. There are low hanging branches above them and across the river there is a small stone bridge. The image is very serene and peaceful.

    • Three people wearing orange high-vis jackets standing in front of a red ribbon holding bags that say "Podack" on them. They are also standing in front of two blue and yellow coffee pod waste bins.

    • A young boy helping to plant a line of trees, marked with two lines of green sticks and a path of soil through the centre.

    • The image shows two individuals in white lab coats lowering the descent capsule of the Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 into a large, cylindrical metal structure to test the heat resistance. The capsule is spherical with a dark bottom half and a lighter top half, featuring several circular holes.

    • A tiger sits outside and looking peaceful, staring wistfully into the distance.

    • Saunton Sands seen from an elevated point at the north end of the beach with the view stretching to the opeing of the Taw Estuary

    • A flamingo, pink in colour, leans down to move its egg. The bird has long, thin legs and is stood on a mud nest.