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Elaborately decorated tomb, discovered at Oxyrhynchus.

A young manatee swims alongside its mother. They will stay together for a couple of years. Image from Underdogs.

These brown bear cubs are just four months old and for the next two years, they will stay with their doting mother, learning about the world around them. (

A Parrot snake on a tree. Image from Underdogs.

Journalist Marresa Burke visits a railroad ice car similar to the one John Doe was found in. Image from Naming the Dead.

Image from Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols.

Image from To Catch a Smuggler.

A female proboscis monkey nurses her baby in a tree. Image from Underdogs.

The Azores, an archipelago of nine lush islands, were formed around 10 million years ago when tectonic shifts pushed these volcanic islands out of the sea.

Two females of the elephant seal colony sound the alarm to a sneaker male intruding. Image from Underdogs.

A CBP officer is holding a possible pest after discovering it in a shipment of celery. Image from To Catch a Smuggler.

US Airways Passenger Jet surrounded by ice in Hudson river at night.

Mariana van Zeller looks at one of Fidelity's helicopters for combatting cash-in-transit heists in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Secret History Of The Mongols is the oldest surviving literary work in a Mongolian language. Written for the Mongol royal family sometime after the death of Chinggis Khan in 1227, it recounts his life and conquests, and also the reign of his successor Ogedei Khan. Image from Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols.

A Juneyao Airlines plane arriving at Melbourne Airport.

Jose watches as Mariana van Zeller aims a gun at bullet-proof glass in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Recreation: Commodus is dressed as a God in the Colosseum.

A CBP officer is wearing protective gloves while counting pills, found on a passenger's person, on an inspection table. Image from To Catch a Smuggler.

Recreation: Spiculus fights to remain Emperor Nero's favorite.

Mariana van Zeller stands with El Gato, co-founder of the Black Cat Rifle Group. Image from Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller.

A portrait of a dusky langur. Image from Underdogs.

AMO Agent Smith stands on a boating vessel, looking out at the open water in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Image from To Catch a Smuggler

A snow plough drove off the road on a narrow forest road. Torstein and Raido use the big tow truck to rescue it and get it back to work before the morning rush.

Iceland straddles two continental plates - the North American and the Eurasian - creating a path for hot magma to rise and form rivers of fire that burn at over 1000 degrees Celsius

A family of meerkats stand in front of the setting sun. Image from Underdogs.

An FDA officer is holding and inspecting two vials of possibly counterfeit Botox, found in a shipment. Image from To Catch a Smuggler.

Rescue boats float next to a US Airways plane.

Dr. Meredith Brand explores Kom Ombo.

A glass frog perched on a leaf. Image from Underdogs.