The winning photo from the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest is dark and bloody: A black rhino lies dead on the ground in South Africa's Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park game reserve, its horn brutally sawed off.
Other winning photos showcase the beauty of nature — sharks circle in a column of water, a bear cub wrestles with its mother, and sperm whales gather to socialize.
The winners of the annual contest, which is produced by the Natural History Museum in London, were announced late Tuesday night. They were chosen from more than 50,000 entries submitted from 92 countries. A selection of preview images from the contest was released in September.
You can see the full gallery of winners and finalists on the museum's website, but we've published a selection of some winners and finalists below.
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This red fox dove into a snowdrift in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, while trying to capture a vole — unsuccessfully.
This male orangutan swung down to the ground for a snack in Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo.
A nesting leatherback turtle journeys back to the ocean in Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge on the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands.
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