This Week's Most Frequently Viewed Images

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). The Nike of Samothrace, discovered in 1863, is estimated to have been created around 190 BC.
Location: Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Image ID: 28102  

Humpback whales surface together during coordinated bubble-net feeding in Southeast Alaska. The whales use bubbles, sound, and movement to corral fish before capturing them in their open mouths.
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Sitka Sound, Alaska
Image ID: 41640  

Spectacular pristine tropical reef, including dendronephthya soft corals, sarcophyton leather corals and schooling Anthias fishes, pulsing with life in a strong current over a pristine coral reef. Fiji is known as the soft coral capitlal of the world.
Species: Anthias, Dendronephthya soft coral, Sarcophyton soft coral, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias, Sarcophyton
Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji
Image ID: 31309  

Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres professional baseball team, overlooking downtown San Diego at dusk.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 27048  
Panorama dimensions: 3084 x 3144

Jacks schooling.
Species: Bigeye jack, Caranx sexfasciatus
Location: Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Image ID: 05272  

Humpback whale performing a peduncle throw at the surface, swinging its fluke (tail) sideways and flinging water all over.
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii
Image ID: 00451  

California bat ray.
Species: California bat ray, Myliobatis californica
Location: San Clemente Island, California
Image ID: 01015  

Galapagos sea lion pup, Punta Espinosa.
Species: Galapagos Sea Lion, California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki, Zalophus californianus
Location: Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 01611  

Brown booby, Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Sula leucogaster.
Species: Brown Booby, Sula leucogaster
Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa
Image ID: 00883  

Ocean sunfish and videographer, open ocean.
Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 02058  

Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California
Image ID: 00627  

Visitors admire the enormous kelp forest tank in the Stephen Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The 70000 gallon tank is home to black seabass, broomtail grouper, garibaldi, moray eels and leopard sharks.
Location: Stephen Birch Aquarium, La Jolla, California
Image ID: 14543  

North Pacific humpback whales, a mother and calf pair swim closely together just under the surface of the ocean. The calf will remain with its mother for about a year, migrating from Hawaii to Alaska to feed on herring.
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii
Image ID: 00140  

California sea lion and diver, Sea of Cortez.
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Image ID: 01980  

Christmas tree worm.
Species: Christmas tree worm, Spirobranchus spinosus
Location: San Miguel Island, California
Image ID: 02565  

Circling jacks.
Species: Bigeye jack, Caranx sexfasciatus
Location: Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Image ID: 06124  

Ocean sunfish injured by boat prop with cleaner fishes, open ocean, Baja California.
Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Image ID: 06411  

Brain rocks. Sandstone is curiously eroded through the forces water and wind acting over eons. Cracks and joints arise when water freezes and expands repeatedly, braking apart the soft sandstone.
Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona
Image ID: 20766  

Glory of the Sea cone shell, gold form. The Glory of the Sea cone shell, once one of the rarest and most sought after of all seashells, remains the most famous and one of the most desireable shells for modern collectors.
Species: Glory of the seas cone, Conus gloriamaris
Image ID: 08730  

Glory of the Sea cone shell, gold form. The Glory of the Sea cone shell, once one of the rarest and most sought after of all seashells, remains the most famous and one of the most desireable shells for modern collectors.
Species: Glory of the seas cone, Conus gloriamaris
Image ID: 08805  

Purple-striped jelly.
Species: Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata
Image ID: 08971  

Copper rockfish.
Species: Copper rockfish, Sebastes caurinus
Image ID: 09020  

Golden Gate Bridge, viewed from the Marin Headlands with the city of San Francisco in the distance. Late afternoon.
Location: San Francisco, California
Image ID: 09046  

White pelicans.
Species: White pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Location: San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas, California
Image ID: 15724  

Purple-striped jelly.
Species: Purple-striped jellyfish, Chrysaora colorata
Image ID: 14925  

Electric eel. Like other members of the South American knifefish family, the electric eel relies on electrolocation to navigate in find food in murky water. However, its electric organs are more powerful than its relatives, allowing it to produce sufficiently high voltage pulses to stun predators and prey.
Species: Electric eel, Electrophorus electricus
Image ID: 13989  

California grunion.
Species: California grunion, Leuresthes tenuis
Location: Carlsbad, California
Image ID: 09300  

Paradise Meadows wildflowers, summer.
Location: Paradise Meadows, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
Image ID: 13892  

Grunt sculpin. Grunt sculpin have evolved into its strange shape to fit within a giant barnacle shell perfectly, using the shell to protect its eggs and itself.
Species: Grunt sculpin, Rhamphocottus richardsoni
Image ID: 13730  

Canada geese along the Yellowstone River.
Species: Canada goose, Branta canadensis
Location: Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 13119