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| Water falling from the fluke (tail) of a humpback whale as the whale dives to forage for food in the Santa Barbara Channel. Image ID: 27029 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Santa Rosa Island, 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 | 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 |
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| Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 02435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | 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 | California sea lions, 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: 23429 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lions, 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: 23422 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Pyrosome in Kelp Forest, Santa Barbara Island. Image ID: 35826 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp fronds showing pneumatocysts, bouyant gas-filled bubble-like structures which float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface, where it will spread to form a roof-like canopy. Image ID: 35827 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp Forest, Santa Barbara Island. Image ID: 35830 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Polyp of a strawberry anemone (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph). Image ID: 01039 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | 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 |
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| Kelp Forest, Santa Barbara Island. Image ID: 35829 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Chestnut cowry. Image ID: 34206 Location: San Diego, California, USA | A SCUBA diver enters a submarine cavern at Santa Barbara Island, underwater cave. Image ID: 23423 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| Aggregating anemone detail. Image ID: 00290 Species: Aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | California sea lion, juveniles at play in kelp forest. Image ID: 00619 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Northern fur seal. Image ID: 00965 Species: Northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA |
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| Northern fur seal. Image ID: 00967 Species: Northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA | Kelp frond in motion, time exposure. Image ID: 02344 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 02436 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp stipe and blades. Image ID: 02498 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California bat ray swimming amidst giant kelp forest. Image ID: 03414 Species: California bat ray, Myliobatis californica, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, Webster Point rookery. Image ID: 03803 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lion, Webster Point rookery. Image ID: 03804 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, Webster Point rookery. Image ID: 03807 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, Webster Point rookery. Image ID: 03811 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lion, Webster Point rookery. Image ID: 03812 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion. Image ID: 04827 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lions, socializing/resting, Webster Point rookery, Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Image ID: 06285 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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