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| A California sea lion plays with a piece of kelp, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Image ID: 23427 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | A great white shark is countershaded, with a dark gray dorsal color and light gray to white underside, making it more difficult for the shark's prey to see it as approaches from above or below in the water column. The particular undulations of the countershading line along its side, where gray meets white, is unique to each shark and helps researchers to identify individual sharks in capture-recapture studies. Guadalupe Island is host to a relatively large population of great white sharks who, through a history of video and photographs showing their countershading lines, are the subject of an ongoing study of shark behaviour, migration and population size. Image ID: 19468 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | California sea lion. Image ID: 02943 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Blue shark and offshore drift kelp. Image ID: 01077 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue shark and offshore drift kelp. Image ID: 01082 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue shark underneath offshore drift kelp, open ocean. Image ID: 01153 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| 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. Image ID: 07667 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | 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. Image ID: 07733 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A great white shark underwater. A large great white shark cruises the clear oceanic waters of Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe). Image ID: 10114 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| California sea lion underwater. Image ID: 27421 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | California sea lion underwater. Image ID: 27422 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | Large group of bachelor adult male California sea lions, underwater view, at Isla Las Animas near La Paz, Sea of Cortez, Baja California. Image ID: 27462 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico |
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| Finescale triggerfish underwater, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27478 Species: Finescale triggerfish, Balistes polylepis Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | Finescale triggerfish underwater, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27489 Species: Finescale triggerfish, Balistes polylepis Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | Reef with gorgonians and marine invertebrates, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27510 Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico |
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| Panamic crown of thorns sea star. Image ID: 27527 Species: Panamic crown of thorns sea star, Acanthaster ellisii Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | Lesser electric ray, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27539 Species: Lesser electric ray, Narcine entemedor Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | Beautiful underwater sunburst, glittering light through the ocean surface, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27562 Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico |
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| Panamic sargeant major fishes and sunburst, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27563 Species: Panamic sargeant major, Abudefduf troschelii Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | Yellow-tailed surgeonfish schooling, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 27564 Species: Yellow-tailed surgeonfish, Prionurus laticlavius Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | Guadalupe fur seal, hauled out upon volcanic rocks along the shoreline of Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 21351 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Mexico's Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and use it as a staging area before journeying farther into the Pacific ocean. Image ID: 19453 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Guadalupe fur seal, Islas San Benito. Image ID: 02298 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico | Ocean sunfish and photographer, open ocean. Image ID: 03324 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Ocean sunfish and freediving photographer, open ocean. Image ID: 03491 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA | Boat Horizon above kelp forest. Image ID: 03764 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian polyps. The red gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of tiny polyps. Each polyp secretes calcium which accumulates to form the structure of the colony. The fan-shaped gorgonian is oriented perpendicular to prevailing ocean currents to better enable to filter-feeding polyps to capture passing plankton and detritus passing by. Image ID: 03480 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Ocean sunfish referencing drift kelp, open ocean near San Diego. Image ID: 03563 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA | A great white shark swims just below the rippled ocean surface of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California. Image ID: 07717 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Fin whale dorsal fin. The fin whale is named for its tall, falcate dorsal fin. Mariners often refer to them as finback whales. Coronado Islands, Mexico (northern Baja California, near San Diego). Image ID: 12769 Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico |
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