Also, climate haven cities; startling wolf hunt; world's first sperm whale reserve
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| How do you boil down the best work from 165 photographers and 2 million images submitted worldwide into a few dozen selections for Nat Geo’s 2023 Pictures of the Year? It’s not easy.
Here are a few of these images, starting with a dance (above) in the Colombian Amazon, with women dressed as pink dolphins, considered mischievous spirits and guardians of the water. This image is part of a two-year expedition, a partnership between Rolex and the National Geographic Society. Read on for more eye-catching images from our lineup.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTOPHER PAYNE | | Chiba, Japan: Workers at the Chiba Kogaku glass factory use sledgehammers to remove the clay pot around a core of optical glass. Highly resistant to air-temperature changes, the glass will be cut into slabs, shipped to the University of Arizona’s observatory, then melted and cast into mirrors for large, high-altitude telescopes.
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| White Sea, Russia: Marine biologist and Nat Geo Explorer Alexander Semenov calls the lion’s mane jellyfish the queen of the Arctic seas. He photographed this regal specimen in its final stage of life: Having reproduced, it has shrunk in size, digested or shed its hundreds of long tentacles, and become, in Semenov’s words, an “alien flower.”
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| Providence, Rhode Island: At Brown University, doctoral student Brooke Quinn (blue glove) and her adviser, Sharon Swartz, work with a Seba’s short-tailed bat inside a wind tunnel. They are testing how tiny sensory hairs on bats’ wings affect their flight responses to turbulence.
Related: How to take wildlife photos like a pro | | | |
| Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico: Streaked with sunlight and crowded together for warmth in winter, monarch butterflies blanket fir trees in El Rosario Sanctuary. Photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Jaime Rojo received special permits to work outside the sanctuary’s operating hours. He made this photograph shortly before sunset.
Related: See our best wildlife photos of 2023 | | | |
| | Sodankylä, Finland: At a military facility north of the Arctic Circle, Finnish and U.S. soldiers train for winter warfare by navigating an obstacle course while on skis. The exercise took place two months before Finland—which shares an 800-mile border with Russia—joined NATO. The training was arranged in response to the war in Ukraine. | | | |
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