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Fin whale underwater. The fin whale is the second longest and sixth most massive animal ever, reaching lengths of 88 feet.
Image ID: 27116
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | 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 | Adult male killer whale, tall dorsal fin, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30435
Species: Killer whale, Orcinus orca
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA |
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Dorsal fin of a great white shark breaks the surface as the shark swims just below.
Image ID: 19490
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Great white shark, dorsal fin extended out of the water as it swims near the surface.
Image ID: 21353
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A great white shark bearing a white plastic researcher's identification ID tag near its dorsal fin 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: 07739
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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Fin whale underwater. The fin whale is the second longest and sixth most massive animal ever, reaching lengths of 88 feet.
Image ID: 27113
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Saddle patch and dorsal fins of killer whales, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30421
Species: Killer whale, Orcinus orca
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA | 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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Tiger shark with GoPro mounted on its dorsal fin.
Image ID: 31932
Species: Tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier
Location: Bahamas | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are usually almost entirely white.
Image ID: 12792
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are usually almost entirely white.
Image ID: 12799
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Dorsal fin of a great white shark breaks the surface as the shark swims just below.
Image ID: 19493
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Great white shark, dorsal fin extended out of the water as it swims near the surface.
Image ID: 21354
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A great white shark swims away, showing its powerful caudal fin (tail), short anal fins on its underside, tall dorsal fin on top and sweeping winglike pectoral fins.
Image ID: 19466
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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Rissos dolphin surfacing with eye showing. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego.
Image ID: 02314
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, breaching. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego.
Image ID: 00983
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | A Rissos dolphin leaps from the ocean in a full breach. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego.
Image ID: 07597
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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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: 12771
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07573
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07577
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Gray whale dorsal ridge (back) at the surface in front of a boat full of whale watchers, Cow Bay, Flores Island, near Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island.
Image ID: 21180
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: Cow Bay, Flores Island, British Columbia, Canada | Saddle patch and dorsal fin of a killer whale, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30434
Species: Killer whale, Orcinus orca
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA | Silky shark, dorsal fin breaking surface.
Image ID: 05014
Species: Silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis
Location: Cocos Island, Costa Rica |
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Killer Whale, Biggs Transient Orca, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30441
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA | Killer Whales, Biggs Transient Orcas, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30442
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA | Killer Whales, Biggs Transient Orcas, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30443
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA |
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Killer Whale, Biggs Transient Orca, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30444
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA | Killer Whale, Biggs Transient Orca, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30445
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA | Humpback whale dorsal fin, one of the identifiable characteristics researchers use to capture/recapture humpback whales from year to year.
Image ID: 27044
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA |
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