'Photos that capture the wonders of our world': National Geographic reveals the best pictures its photographers took in 2024, from a rare tiger to a penguin leaping off a cliff

A young emperor penguin jumps disconnected a 50-foot cliff for its archetypal swim. Nat Geo adds 'The taxon usually breeds connected low-lying oversea ice, but immoderate colonies person been recovered connected higher and much imperishable crystal shelves, behaviour apt to go progressively communal with clime change. Left by their parents a period earlier, the chicks indispensable fend for themselves and find nutrient by hunting successful the sea'

A mesmerising changeable of Guatemala’s Fuego Volcano, which has been erupting continuously since 2002. Nat Geo reveals: 'A one-day hike up its dormant twin, Acatenango, and crossed a vale rewards adventurers with a presumption from Fuego's ridgeline. Eruptions tin hap aggregate times a day'

A spellbinding representation of a achromatic tiger - known for its merged stripes - patrolling the Similipal Tiger Reserve successful eastbound India

This is Siwa Oasis successful Egypt's Western Desert. Its dunes are a large gully for tourists, says Nat Geo

This representation captured a uncommon infinitesimal successful the satellite of cicadas. Nat Geo explains: 'Periodical cicadas walk 13 oregon 17 years successful the ground, emerging lone to reproduce. Last May and June, for the archetypal clip successful 221 years, brood XIII, with a 17-year cycle, and brood XIX, with a 13-year cycle, emerged simultaneously successful the Midwest and southeastern United States, respectively, filling the aerial with vibrations arsenic they called retired to mate' 

A idiosyncratic successful Kenya holds the 70-day-old fetus of a rhino conceived done successful vitro fertilisation (IVF). The surrogate parent sadly died from a bacterial infection

This thought-provoking representation shows a shrine successful an country with a affluent past of animism, Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism that's maintained by section Wakhi people, who are Ismaili Muslims. Nat Geo explains that a histrion that fell years agone connected the shrine's tomb, adorned with horns from ibex and sheep, was near successful spot arsenic customized dictates

Visual feast: The screen of the National Geographic Pictures of the Year 2024 issue