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| Kelp forest. Image ID: 03419 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Diver amidst kelp forest. Image ID: 03420 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds. Image ID: 03423 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp forest. Image ID: 03425 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest. Image ID: 04660 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Cardon cactus, near La Paz, Baja California, Mexico. Known as the elephant cactus or Mexican giant cactus, cardon is largest cactus in the world and is endemic to the deserts of the Baja California peninsula. Some specimens of cardon have been measured over 21m (70) high. These slow-growing plants live up to 300 years and can weigh 25 tons. Cardon is often mistaken for the superficially similar saguaro of Arizona and Sonora, but the saguaro does not occupy Baja California. Image ID: 05498 Species: Cardon cactus, Pachycereus pringlei Location: La Paz, Baja California, Mexico |
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| Kelp forest. Image ID: 06092 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds reach the surface and spread out to form a canopy. Image ID: 06098 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Garibaldi swimming over surfgrass in kelp forest. Image ID: 06274 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Phyllospadix, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Diver amidst kelp forest. Image ID: 19918 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest. Image ID: 19919 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds, showing pneumatocysts (gas bladders). Image ID: 19920 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp fronds backlit by the sun. Image ID: 19921 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest. Image ID: 19922 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest. Image ID: 19924 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Diver in kelp. Image ID: 00274 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Pacific torpedo ray in kelp forest, filming lights. Image ID: 01009 Species: Pacific torpedo ray, Torpedo californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA | Diver in kelp forest. Image ID: 01104 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Giant kelpfish amidst kelp. Image ID: 01291 Species: Giant kelpfish, Heterostichus rostratus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Jack mackerel and kelp. Image ID: 01499 Species: Pacific jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp forest. Image ID: 02412 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Garibaldi and kelp forest. Image ID: 02509 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California Golden gorgonian in kelp forest. Image ID: 03486 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef below kelp forest. Image ID: 03827 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp forest. Image ID: 04661 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Zebra perch amid kelp forest, Islas San Benito. Image ID: 06200 Species: Zebra perch, Hermosilla azurea, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico | California Golden gorgonian in kelp forest. Image ID: 01280 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp fronds grow upward from the reef below to reach the ocean surface and spread out to form a living canopy. Image ID: 07490 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Young hikers are dwarfed by the trunk of an enormous Sequoia tree. Image ID: 09879 Species: Giant sequoia tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum Location: Giant Forest, Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA |
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