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Ethereal Elephant Photo Crowned Wildlife Photo of the Year

Each year, London's Natural History Museum hands out awards for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, and the winner of this year's competition brought home top prize with an ethereal, beautiful and accidental photo of elephants at a watering hold in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve in Botswana.

Amazing Photo of a Polar Bear Swimming and the Story Behind It

Frenchman Joe Bunni is not a photographer; first and foremost he's a dentist. Once you learn that, the fact that he captured the above photo and won the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award in 2011 is even more incredible. The photo shows a polar bear swimming not more than a few feet away from Bunni, and if you think the photo is amazing, wait until you hear the story behind it.