2009's Top Ten Photo Galleries From National Geographic News (PHOTOS)›

2009 has given us some amazing insights to the natural world, from a fish with a transparent head, to a brand new type of cloud that looks like something plucked from a special effects studio. Thanks to National Geographic News, we at HuffPost Green are able to share with you their top ten most viewed photo galleries of 2009. Just click on the links at the bottom of each photo to see the associated gallery in full.

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10. Rare Animals Photographed: Giant Armadillo, Short-Eared Dog, More

In a picture from the tenth most viewed National Geographic News photo gallery of 2009, a short-eared dog focuses on a camera trap in Peru's Amazon rain forest.



Camera traps photographed the jaguar, a giant armadillo, bush dogs, and more rare creatures as part of a biodiversity project in a remote and unstudied region of the country's northeast.



See gallery for more of the camera-trap pictures

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[dozaa]

12:21 AM on 12/11/2009

That fish is astounding­ly cool!

[jan4insight]

08:32 PM on 12/10/2009

The fish is my favorite photo - it looks like a spaceship!

[northstar11]

10:27 AM on 12/10/2009

how is it the astronaut and a rock on the surface cast a shadow to the right but the flag pole and flag do not.?

[Forester]

01:10 PM on 12/10/2009

All I can think is the pole is so narrow and the flag is aligned with the sun angle that it casts a very narrow shadow that should appear behind Armstrong (or Aldrin). If it were something from today I would think it was cut and pasted there for sake of compositio­n by some editor at National Geographic (something they are famous for - they have moved pyramids!)­.