See impressive wildlife photos from the world photography competition

The Natural History Museum in London, England, which organizes this annual wildlife photography competition, said this year it received a record 60,636 entries from photographers around the world.

In one photo, a lioness looks over the edge of a rock and comes face to face with a cobra; in another, a sloth clutches a barbed-wire fence post as if its life depended on it; and here, a lone elephant wades through multicolored trash at a waste disposal site.

These are some of the thousands of stunning photos taken around the world and depict scenes from every angle - from the air, underwater and on land.

The jury will select 100 photos to display at the museum's exhibition before announcing the winners in each category next October, according to CNN.

A wild elephant rummages through a large rubbish dump in Ampara, Sri Lanka - PHOTO: Lakshitha Karunarathna

A baby emperor penguin moves along the edge of an ice shelf before its first swim in Atka Bay, Antarctica - PHOTO: Bertie Gregory

Arctic wolves on Canada's Ellesmere Island got so close to photographer Amit Eshel that he could smell their breath - PHOTO: Amit Eshel

A brown-necked three-toed sloth clings to a fence post after crossing the road in El Tanque, San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica - PHOTO: Emmanuel Tardy

Pacific sea nettle (Chrysaora fuscescens) photographed off the coast of Monterey, California. The photographer covered himself in petroleum jelly before diving into the water to protect himself from jellyfish stings while taking this photo - PHOTO: Ralph Pace

These three young cheetahs caught a cheetah dik-dik in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya while they were practicing hunting - PHOTO: Marina Cano

A lioness confronts a cobra slithering towards her in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania - PHOTO: Gabriella Comi

Fruit bats fly towards Sitaram Raul's camera in Banda, Maharashtra, India - PHOTO: Sitaram Raul

Swiss photographer Leana Kuster captured this photo of a flamingo foraging in France - PHOTO: Leana Kuster

Photographers have gone to great lengths to capture these moments. Bertie Gregory, for example, spent two months living with a colony of emperor penguins on an ice shelf in Antarctica, watching most of the chicks migrate down to sea level to feed using ice slides.

Or Emmanuel Tardy saw traffic back up as a sloth crossed a road in Costa Rica before reaching a fence post and clinging to it. Such scenes are becoming more common as habitats become fragmented and sloths have more paths to traverse to reach the next tree.

Other photographers focus on the often tense interactions between wildlife and humans, highlighting the ways in which photography can aid conservation and raise awareness of environmental threats.

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