February 2009: Two hundred years ago this months, Charles Darwin was born: a good reason to celebrate Darwin Day. Darwin addressed the question where all the different species came from, or, in modern language, where the broad variety of DNA originated. But where do species, where does DNA go, when species become extinct? We changed the biosphere significantly over the last 300 years, and we are creating one of the greatest extinction crisis in Earth's history: an estimated 34,000 plants and 5,200 animal species face extinction. Where do they go? In his series Endangered Species and their DNA return to Space, Marv Lyons has given a hypothetical and artistically beautiful answer. Our picture of the month symbolically depicts the inversion of Darwin's Origin of the Species and returns many of them to space.

Picture courtesy Marv Lyons.