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| Half Dome and storm clouds at sunset, viewed from Sentinel Bridge. World Heritage Sites Photo. Image ID: 22744 Location: Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Male elk bugling during the fall rut. Large male elk are known as bulls. Male elk have large antlers which are shed each year. Male elk engage in competitive mating behaviors during the rut, including posturing, antler wrestling and bugling, a loud series of screams which is intended to establish dominance over other males and attract females. World Heritage Sites Picture. Image ID: 19693 Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Vernal Falls at peak flow in late spring, with a rainbow appearing in the spray of the falls, viewed from the Mist Trail. Stock Photography of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 12634 Location: Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Bull elk spar to establish harems of females, Gibbon Meadow. Photograph of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 13151 Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Gibbon Meadows, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | A rainbow appears in the mist of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. At 308 feet, the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River is the tallest fall in the park. This view is from Lookout Point on the North side of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. When conditions are perfect in midsummer, a midmorning rainbow briefly appears in the falls. World Heritage Sites Photos. Image ID: 13319 Location: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Grand Prismatic Spring (left) and Excelsior Geyser (right). Grand Prismatic Spring displays a stunning rainbow of colors created by species of thermophilac (heat-loving) bacteria that thrive in narrow temperature ranges. The blue water in the center is too hot to support any bacterial life, while the outer orange rings are the coolest water. Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest spring in the United States and the third-largest in the world. Midway Geyser Basin. World Heritage Sites Image. Image ID: 13571 Location: Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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| Mule deer in tall grass, fall, autumn. Professional stock photos of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 19577 Species: Mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | A whale shark swims through the open ocean in the Galapagos Islands. The whale shark is the largest shark on Earth, but is harmless eating plankton and small fish. Pictures of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 01520 Species: Whale shark, Rhincodon typus Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Horsetail Falls backlit by the setting sun as it cascades down the face of El Capitan, February, Yosemite Valley. World Heritage Sites Photo. Image ID: 07048 Location: Horsetail Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Old Faithful geyser, peak eruption. World Heritage Sites Picture. Image ID: 07179 Location: Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Yosemite Falls at peak flow in late spring, viewed from Cooks Meadow. Stock Photography of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 12631 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Galapagos shark swims over a reef in the Galapagos Islands, with schooling fish in the distance. Photograph of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 16240 Species: Galapagos shark, Carcharhinus galapagensis Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Scalloped hammerhead shark swims over a reef in the Galapagos Islands. The hammerheads eyes and other sensor organs are placed far apart on its wide head to give the shark greater ability to sense the location of prey. World Heritage Sites Photos. Image ID: 16246 Species: Scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Galapagos sea lion pup, Punta Espinosa. World Heritage Sites Image. Image ID: 01611 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Lembert Dome and late afternoon clouds rise above Tuolumne Meadows in the High Sierra, catching the fading light of sunset. Professional stock photos of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 09938 Location: Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Bigeye trevally jacks, motion blur, schooling. Pictures of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 16347 Species: Bigeye jack, Caranx sexfasciatus Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Townsley Lake (10396'), a beautiful alpine lake sitting below blue sky, clouds and Fletcher Peak (right), lies amid the Cathedral Range of glacier-sculpted granite peaks in Yosemite's high country, near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp. World Heritage Sites Photo. Image ID: 23206 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Scalloped hammerhead shark swims underwater at Cocos Island. The hammerheads eyes and other sensor organs are placed far apart on its wide head to give the shark greater ability to sense the location of prey. World Heritage Sites Picture. Image ID: 03192 Species: Scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini Location: Cocos Island, Costa Rica |
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| Galapagos penguin, underwater, swimming. Bartolome Island. Stock Photography of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 16234 Species: Galapagos penguin, Spheniscus mendiculus Location: Bartolome Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | El Capitan eastern face, sunrise. Photograph of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 22745 Location: El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Yosemite Falls and tall pine trees, viewed from Cook's Meadow. World Heritage Sites Photos. Image ID: 22746 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Fletcher Peak (11407') rises above Fletcher Lake (10174'), near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp in Yosemite's high country. World Heritage Sites Image. Image ID: 23208 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Magnificent frigatebird, adult male on nest, with throat pouch inflated, a courtship display to attract females. Professional stock photos of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 16725 Species: Magnificent frigatebird, Fregata magnificens Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Vogelsang Peak (11516') at sunset, reflected in a small creek near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp in Yosemite's high country. Pictures of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 23202 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Magnificent frigatebird, adult female on nest. World Heritage Sites Photo. Image ID: 16726 Species: Magnificent frigatebird, Fregata magnificens Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Nazca booby in flight. World Heritage Sites Picture. Image ID: 16681 Species: Nazca booby, Sula granti Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Hiker views Vogelsang Lake, and Vogelsang Peak (11516') at sunrise in Yosemite's High Sierra. Stock Photography of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 23201 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Bridalveil Falls at sunset, with clouds and blue sky in the background. Bridalveil Falls in Yosemite drops 620 feet (188 m) from a hanging valley to the floor of Yosemite Valley. Photograph of World Heritage Sites. Image ID: 12646 Location: Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | The bisons massive head is its most characteristic feature. Its forehead bulges because of its convex-shaped frontal bone. Its shoulder hump, dwindling bowlike to the haunches, is supported by unusually long spinal vertebrae. Over powerful neck and shoulder muscles grows a great shaggy coat of curly brown fur, and over the head, like an immense hood, grows a shock of black hair. Its forequarters are higher and much heavier than its haunches. A mature bull stands about 6 1/2 feet (2 meters) at the shoulder and weighs more than 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms). The bisons horns are short and black. In the male they are thick at the base and taper abruptly to sharp points as they curve outward and upward; the females horns are more slender. World Heritage Sites Photos. Image ID: 13120 Species: American bison, Bison bison Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Fly fishing below Gibbon Falls. This flyfisherman hiked up the Gibbon River to reach the foot of Gibbon Falls. World Heritage Sites Image. Image ID: 13269 Location: Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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