See stunning photos of animals and nature captured by AP photojournalists in 2025
The Associated Press’ most striking images of nature in 2025 show an existence as fragile as an albino turtle hatchling among its peers or the translucent wings of a cicada.
Beyond the headlines and the sometimes dangerous human impacts on their worlds, animals and other creatures persist.
A polar bear sprawls outside an abandoned research station on an island off the coast of Russia, surrounded by grass, not snow.
A raccoon eats peanuts on a boardwalk in Panama City.
The sheep are herded in the center of Madrid.
The photos show a world without us and without borders, of extraordinary everyday beauty.
A hummingbird is about to sip a flower.
A pollen-speckled ladybug explores a dandelion.
A humpback whale surfaces with a dull thud.
All things have an end. An insect is trapped in a shimmering carnivorous plant. Vultures fly over an invisible carcass in India. Eagles fight each other while hunting.
And then, as a baby bird emerges from its parents’ feathers, life begins again.
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Photo editing by Courtney Dittmar and Anne-Marie Belgrave.
