From sky to sea, and then back to the lab, here are the top images from Nature’s 2026 photo competition. This article is also available as a pdf version. As morning dawns over the fields and olive groves of Jaén in the south of Spain, a flock of northern bald ibises (Geronticus eremita) are in flight. From the back of an ultralight aircraft, Helena Wehn... [5531 chars]