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| SCUBA Diver and Steller Sea Lions Underwater, underwater photographer, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada. Image ID: 36133 Species: Steller sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus | Two blue whales, a mother and her calf, swim through the open ocean in this aerial photograph. The calf is blowing (spouting, exhaling) with a powerful column of spray. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth. Image ID: 02304 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA | North Pacific humpback whale showing extensive scarring, almost certainly from a boat propeller, on dorsal ridge. Image ID: 05909 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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| Aerial photo of Catalina Island, West End. Image ID: 26029 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Blue whale underwater photo showing entire whale head (rostrum) to tail (fluke). This picture of a blue whale shows it swimming through the open ocean, a rare underwater view. Specialized underwater camera gear, including an extremely wide lens, was used to capture the entire enormous whale in a single photograph. Image ID: 27300 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: California, 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. Image ID: 01520 Species: Whale shark, Rhincodon typus Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 12669 Species: Mountain dogwood, Cornus nuttallii Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Atlantic spotted dolphin, Olympic swimmer Mikako Kotani, videographer Tom Fitz. Image ID: 00014 Species: Atlantic spotted dolphin, Stenella frontalis Location: Bahamas | Horn shark. Image ID: 01071 Species: Horn shark, Heterodontus francisci Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Mountain lion leaping. Image ID: 12283 Species: Mountain lion, Puma concolor | Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 12668 Species: Mountain dogwood, Cornus nuttallii Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 12672 Species: Mountain dogwood, Cornus nuttallii Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Mountain lion, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California. Image ID: 15791 Species: Mountain lion, Puma concolor | A neonate gray whale calf, born just hours before, still exhbiting embryonic folds in the skin along its side. This baby gray whale was born in the cold waters of Big Sur, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place. Image ID: 01135 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Monterey, California, USA | Coral hawkfish. Image ID: 02432 Species: Coral hawkfish, Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Ocean sunfish and freediving photographer, open ocean. Image ID: 03325 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA | Ocean sunfish schooling, open ocean near San Diego. Image ID: 03562 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA | Gray whales, two males both with extended penis during courtship socialization, Laguna San Ignacio. Image ID: 06431 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico |
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| Fish-eating anemone. Image ID: 08980 Species: Fish-eating anemone, Urticina piscivora | Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 12670 Species: Mountain dogwood, Cornus nuttallii Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 12671 Species: Mountain dogwood, Cornus nuttallii Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 12677 Species: Mountain dogwood, Cornus nuttallii Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Emperor angelfish, juvenile coloration. Image ID: 13745 Species: Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator | Visitors admire the enormous kelp forest tank in the Stephen Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The 70000 gallon tank is home to black seabass, broomtail grouper, garibaldi, moray eels and leopard sharks. Image ID: 14543 Location: Stephen Birch Aquarium, La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Antarctic fur seals, adult male bull and female, illustrating extreme sexual dimorphism common among pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and fur seals). Image ID: 24324 Species: Antarctic Fur Seal, Arctocephalus gazella Location: Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island | T.A. Moulton barn with Teton Range, on Mormon Row in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Image ID: 26914 Location: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA | Blue whale underwater closeup photo. This picture of a blue whale, the largest animal ever to inhabit earth, shows it swimming through the open ocean, a rare underwater view. Since this blue whale was approximately 80-90' long and just a few feet from the camera, an extremely wide lens was used to photograph the entire enormous whale. Image ID: 27299 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: California, USA |
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| Blue whales feeding on krill underwater closeup photo. A picture of a blue whale with its throat pleats inflated with a mouthful of krill. A calf swims behind and below the adult. Over 80' long and just a few feet from the camera, an extremely wide lens was used to photograph the entire enormous whale. Image ID: 27314 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: California, USA | Sailing stone on the Racetrack Playa. The sliding rocks, or sailing stones, move across the mud flats of the Racetrack Playa, leaving trails behind in the mud. The explanation for their movement is not known with certainty, but many believe wind pushes the rocks over wet and perhaps icy mud in winter. Image ID: 27689 Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | A huge blue whale swims through the open ocean in this underwater photograph. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth. Image ID: 34567 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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