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| Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33435 Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33436 Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33437 Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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| Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 33438 Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Corynactis anemone polyp, a corallimorph, extends its arms into passing ocean currents to catch food. Image ID: 33476 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Diego, California, USA | Silky Shark at San Benedicto Islands, Revillagigedos, Mexico. Image ID: 33310 Species: Silky Shark, Carcharhinus falciformis Location: Socorro Island (Islas Revillagigedos), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Silky Shark at San Benedicto Islands, Revillagigedos, Mexico. Image ID: 33313 Species: Silky Shark, Carcharhinus falciformis Location: Socorro Island (Islas Revillagigedos), Baja California, Mexico | Aerial photo of gray whale calf and mother. This baby gray whale was born during the southern migration, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place. Image ID: 29017 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: San Clemente, California, USA | California sea lion, 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: 23418 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| A great white shark swims toward the photographer. Perhaps the shark is considering him as possible prey? The photographer, a "shark diver" is safely situated in a sturdy metal cage. The best location in the world to "shark dive" to view great white sharks is Mexico's Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 19457 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A great white shark swims underwater through the ocean at Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 21346 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Two satellite tags, below dorsal fin of great white shark. The tags record the sharks movements, relaying data to researchers via satellite. Image ID: 21391 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| A humpback whale raises it fluke out of the water, the coast of Del Mar and La Jolla is visible in the distance. Image ID: 27142 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Del Mar, California, USA | Middle Coronado Island, viewed from the south. Image ID: 21322 Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | California sea lion. Image ID: 00248 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Northern fur seal swims through the cold waters and kelp forest of San Miguel Island, in California's northern Channel Islands. Image ID: 00966 Species: Northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Pacific bottlenose dolphin. Image ID: 00968 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 02031 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 02159 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sea lions, Coronado Islands. Image ID: 02160 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Blue shark searching drift kelp for food, open ocean. Image ID: 02288 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 02435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Guadalupe fur seal mother and pup. Image ID: 02440 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | California sea lion, Coronado Islands. Image ID: 02920 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico |
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| California sea lions, socializing/resting, Webster Point rookery, Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Image ID: 06284 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Aggregating anemone opens its arms to passing ocean currents in an attempt to snag passing bits of food or unwary prey. Image ID: 00314 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: Laguna Beach, California, USA | Blue shark and yellowtail in the open ocean. Image ID: 01000 Species: North Pacific Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi, Prionace glauca Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Blue shark and offshore drift kelp paddy, open ocean. Image ID: 01078 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Diego, California, USA | Blue shark and offshore drift kelp paddy, open ocean. Image ID: 01081 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Macrocystis pyrifera 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: 07721 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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