February 03 2012

China

Bird on Peach Twig

(© Tohoku Color Agency/Japan Images/Getty Images)

Australia, Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom

Licmophora flabellata, a type of sessile diatom, at a magnification of 100

(© Wim van Egmond /Corbis)

Japan

 Romanesco

(© Martha Lazar/Getty)

New Zealand, United States 

Heads of stone statues at Mount Nemrut in Turkey

(© Manfred Mehlig/Corbis)