The best animal photos of 2018

In the year's most striking animal photos, a butterfly gets into trouble, a raccoon climbs a building, and more

December 27, 2018

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A raccoon climbs a building in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(Evan Frost/MPR News/via REUTERS)

Kenya Wildlife Service rangers load a tranquilized elephant onto a truck during a translocation exercise.

(REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)

A keeper looks inside the mouth of a sea lion at Tiergarten Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria.

(EPA-EFE/LISI NIESNER)

A butterfly flies into the jaws of a crocodile in Tarcoles, Costa Rica.

(EPA-EFE/JEFFREY ARGUEDAS)

A display of stuffed frogs at the Frog Museum in Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland.

(REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)

A woman dresses her cat before an Orthodox Easter celebration in central Kiev, Ukraine.

(REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko)

Oil is cleaned off swans near Hoek van Holland, The Netherlands.

(EPA-EFE/ALEXANDER SCHIPPERS)

Ethiopian general vows to 'eliminate' Tigrayan opposition

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the beginning of the end?

Flights to and from Xi'an resume as China eases lockdown

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Everybody out!

Families of U.S. Embassy personnel must evacuate Ukraine, State Department orders

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Death from Above

Air strike on Yemeni detention center kills at least 70, Houthis claim

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take a cold shower, tucker

Tucker Carlson complains new M&M's mascots are 'less sexy'

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'Stop the Mandate' Vaccination protest sign.

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mandates shmandates

Anti-mandate protest reportedly set for D.C. on Sunday

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make like a tree

U.S. reportedly mulling Ukraine evacuation for diplomats' families

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Fragility

Florida advances ban on making white people feel 'discomfort' over past racism

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covid-19

California deputy DA opposed to vaccine mandates dies of COVID-19

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