This Week's Most Frequently Viewed Images

Mexican hogfish, adult male showing fleshy bump on head.
Species: Mexican hogfish, Bodianus diplotaenia
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 09606  

Craig OConnor and his pending spearfishing world record North Pacific yellowtail (77.4 pounds), taken on a breathold dive with a band-power speargun near Abalone Point. Guadalupe Island is home to enormous yellowtail. The three most recent spearfishing world records for Northern yellowtail have been taken at Guadalupe. July 2004.
Species: North pacific yellowtail, Yellowtail, Kingfish, Seriola lalandi
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 09597  

Granite structures form the underwater reef at Abalone Point.
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 09542  

Ocean sunfish schooling near drift kelp, soliciting cleaner fishes, open ocean, Baja California.
Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Image ID: 06304  

Roman emperor Antonius Pius (138-161 A.D.), depicted on ancient Roman coin (bronze, denom/type: As) (As. Obverse: ANTONIUS AVG PIUS PP. Reverse: TR POT COS II SC PAX (exergue). PAX stg left., holding branch and cornucopiae.).
Image ID: 06556  

Bubble ring.
Image ID: 06998  

Starfish (sea star), detail showing tube feet ending in small suckers.
Species: Giant sea star, Pisaster giganteus
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 07015  

Pine trees, Yosemite Valley.
Species: Lodgepole pine tree, Pinus contortus
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 07044  

Old Faithful geyser, peak eruption.
Location: Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07179  

Old Faithful geyser at peak eruption.
Location: Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07182  

A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and tuna.
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 07668  

Red saddleback anemonefish.
Species: Red saddleback anemonefish, Amphiprion ephippium
Image ID: 07833  

Atlantic Gray Cowrie, Ashen Cowrie.
Species: Ashen cowrie, Atlantic gray cowrie, Cypraea cinerea
Image ID: 08620  

Longnose hawkfish.
Species: Longnose hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus
Image ID: 08812  

Barrier reef anemonefish.
Species: Barrier reef anemonefish, Amphiprion akindynos
Image ID: 08824  

Sapphire devil, male coloration.
Species: Sapphire devil, Chrysiptera cyanea
Image ID: 08906  

Saddleback grouper.
Species: Saddleback grouper, Plectropomus laevis
Image ID: 08907  

Cortez rainbow wrasse, terminal male phase sometimes referred to as supermale.
Species: Rainbow wrasse, Thalassoma lucasanum
Image ID: 09298  

Four-eyed fish, found in the Amazon River delta of South America. The name four-eyed fish is actually a misnomer. It has only two eyes, but both are divided into aerial and aquatic parts. The two retinal regions of each eye, working in concert with two different curvatures of the eyeball above and below water to account for the difference in light refractivity for air and water, allow this amazing fish to see clearly above and below the water surface simultaneously.
Species: Four-eyed fish, Anableps anableps
Image ID: 09378  

Desert bighorn sheep, male ram. The desert bighorn sheep occupies dry, rocky mountain ranges in the Mojave and Sonoran desert regions of California, Nevada and Mexico. The desert bighorn sheep is highly endangered in the United States, having a population of only about 4000 individuals, and is under survival pressure due to habitat loss, disease, over-hunting, competition with livestock, and human encroachment.
Species: Desert bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis nelsoni
Image ID: 14651