Picture of the Day

Check out National Geographic News's feature- Photo of the Day, selections from their extensive archives of stunning photographs of nature from some of the world's best photographers.

Here is today's photo:

2003, Michael K. Nichols

An armored cricket heavy with eggs stood its ground.

—From "Gabon's Loango National Park: In the land of the surfing hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine

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