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| Galapagos sea lion pup. Image ID: 16506 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Galapagos sea lion pup, Punta Espinosa. Image ID: 01611 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | A SCUBA diver swims through a giant kelp forest which is tilted back by strong ocean currents. Giant kelp, the fastest plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 01107 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Galapagos sea lion with shark bite. Image ID: 01711 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Galapagos sea lion with shark bite. Image ID: 01713 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Galapagos sea lion playing with puffer fish. Image ID: 02254 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Cousins, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Galapagos sea lion. Image ID: 02259 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Mosquera Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | A kelp forest, with sunbeams passing through kelp fronds. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Image ID: 02411 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 00627 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp bed. Giant macrocystis kelp is anchored on the ocean floor and grows to reach the ocean surface. Image ID: 02502 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Granulated Cowrie. Image ID: 07982 Species: Granulated cowrie, Cypraea granulata | Dragon Caurica Cowrie. Image ID: 07998 Species: Dragon caurica cowrie, Cypraea caurica dracaena corrosa |
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| Dragon Caurica Cowrie. Image ID: 07999 Species: Dragon caurica cowrie, Cypraea caurica dracaena corrosa | Pale Cowrie. Image ID: 08015 Species: Pale cowrie, Cypraea pallida | Pale Cowrie. Image ID: 08016 Species: Pale cowrie, Cypraea pallida |
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| Rhinoceros Pale Cowrie. Image ID: 08127 Species: Rhinoceros pale cowrie, Cypraea pallidula rhinoceros | Rhinoceros Pale Cowrie. Image ID: 08128 Species: Rhinoceros pale cowrie, Cypraea pallidula rhinoceros | Beryl Spring is superheated with temperatures above the boiling point. Image ID: 13465 Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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| Ocean sunfish and freediving photographer, open ocean. Image ID: 03325 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA | Strawberry anemone (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph). Image ID: 05356 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: Scripps Canyon, La Jolla, California, USA | Squid, mating and laying eggs. Image ID: 05380 Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Amanda Hot Spring, west of parking lot at Fairy Falls trailhead. Midway Geyser Basin. Image ID: 13602 Location: Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | North American porcupine. Image ID: 15946 Species: North american porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum | Lion, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Image ID: 29928 Species: African lion, Panthera leo Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya |
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| Sunset over Garden of the Gods, Arches National Park. Image ID: 29261 Location: Garden of the Gods, Arches National Park, Utah, USA Pano dimensions: 4108 x 8190 | ||
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| Caribbean reef shark. Image ID: 31992 Species: Caribbean reef shark, Carcharhinus perezi Location: Bahamas | 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: 33433 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 37121 Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp canopy. Image ID: 00250 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Molokai summit and cloud, viewed from west Maui. Image ID: 00254 Location: Molokai, Hawaii, USA | |
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