From western toad tadpoles to glowing wetlands, this year’s winners capture nature’s beauty—and its fragility.

Pink dolphins, yawning lynx and swarms of tadpoles - check out this year's best wildlife photographers, according to the Natural History Museum.

Photojournalist Shane Gross has won the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition with his shot of a swarm of western toad tadpoles beneath lily pads in a lake on Vancouver Island.

Selected from a record 59,228 entries, these are the overall winners and the 18 category winners of this prestigious competition by London’s Natural History Museum.