Best Photos of 2005

Mon, Nov 17, 2008

Swallowed whole

A rainbow trout fingerling peers out from the gullet of a northern pike at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game aquarium in Anchorage.

A Romp in Russia
A polar bear cub plays near his mother at the Moscow Zoo

A galaxy’s sharp edge
An image produced by the Hubble Space Telescope, released March 1, shows a perfect “edge-on” perspective of the galaxy NGC 4013, with huge clouds of dust and gas extending above the galaxy’s main disk

Mother and child
An ethnic Albanian refugee from Selce, Macedonia, and her child look through the window of a bus as they arrive in Prizren in Kosovo on March 27, after fleeing the fighting in Macedonia two days earlier

A useful lesson
A German Shepherd named Pepper sits with two endangered Bengal tiger cubs and a cougar cub, far right, at the home of veterinarian Rob Zammit outside Sydney, Australia.

Great white whale
A beluga whale swims in a tank at the Vancouver Aquarium.

Puppy love
Crystal, a year-old black Labrador-Dalmatian mix, peers through a heart-shaped hole in a fence.

The gathering storm
Dark clouds roll over Blair, Neb., on May 9, bringing thunder and flashes of lightning.

The little duckling
Mallard ducklings wait their turn May 14 as a sibling struggles to make it up a curb in South Bend, Ind. The mother, who had already cleared the obstacle, flirted with traffic for 20 minutes before leading her offspring safely across the busy road

Mideast flare-up
A Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire stones at Israeli soldiers from behind a barricade of burning tires May 23

Rainbow times two
An afternoon storm brought a double rainbow over downtown Chillicothe, Ohio, on May 27

Fury from above
Lightning ripples over the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 14

Grand old night
Tanner Mann, 8, of Hortonville, Wis., gets a good seat on top of his mother’s car July 4 for the fireworks show at Riverside Park in New London