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| Kelp holdfast attaches the plant to the rocky reef on the oceans bottom. Kelp blades are visible above the holdfast, swaying in the current. Image ID: 34212 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Aerial Photo of San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA. Scripps Institution of Oceanography Research Pier. Image ID: 30626 Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA | Aerial Photo of San Diego Scripps Coastal SMCA. Blacks Beach and Scripps Pier. Image ID: 30624 Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| San Diego city skyline at sunset, showing the buildings of downtown San Diego rising above San Diego Harbor, viewed from Harbor Island. A panoramic photograph, composite of four separate images. Image ID: 22253 Location: San Diego, California, USA Pano dimensions: 3415 x 14649 | ||
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| The Virgin River flows through the Zion Narrows, with tall sandstone walls towering hundreds of feet above. Image ID: 26103 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA | Darwins Arch, a dramatic 50-foot tall natural lava arch, rises above the ocean a short distance offshore of Darwin Island. Image ID: 16621 Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath. Image ID: 21254 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Yosemite Falls rises above the Merced River, viewed from Swinging Bridge. Image ID: 22757 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Rose Islet. Image ID: 00839 Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath. Image ID: 21256 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Vernal Falls and Merced River in spring, heavy flow due to snow melt in the high country above Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 26878 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath. Image ID: 21255 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Cormorants rest on sandstone seacliffs above the ocean. Likely Brandts and double-crested cormorants. Image ID: 18345 Species: Cormorants, Phalacrocorax Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| A great white shark is countershaded, with a dark gray dorsal color and light gray to white underside, making it more difficult for the shark's prey to see it as approaches from above or below in the water column. The particular undulations of the countershading line along its side, where gray meets white, is unique to each shark and helps researchers to identify individual sharks in capture-recapture studies. Guadalupe Island is host to a relatively large population of great white sharks who, through a history of video and photographs showing their countershading lines, are the subject of an ongoing study of shark behaviour, migration and population size. Image ID: 19468 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Yosemite Falls rises above the Merced River, viewed from the Swinging Bridge. The 2425' falls is the tallest in North America. Image ID: 27741 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Blue whale fluking. An enormous blue whale raises its powerful fluke (tail) high out of the water as it makes a steep dive into the open ocean. Image ID: 21261 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Boat Horizon above kelp forest. Image ID: 03764 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Anthias fishes school in strong currents above hard and soft corals on a Fijian coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 34831 Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Anthias fishes school in strong currents above hard and soft corals on a Fijian coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 34906 Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji |
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| Anthias fishes school in strong currents above hard and soft corals on a Fijian coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 34791 Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Anthias fishes school in strong currents above hard and soft corals on a Fijian coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 34907 Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Anthias fishes school in strong currents above hard and soft corals on a Fijian coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 34930 Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji |
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| Anthias fishes school in strong currents above hard and soft corals on a Fijian coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 34988 Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | A forest of bull kelp rises above a colorful cold water reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island. Image ID: 35367 Species: Giant Plumose Anemone, Bull Kelp, Metridium farcimen, Nereocystis luetkeana Location: British Columbia, Canada | A forest of bull kelp rises above a colorful cold water reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island. Image ID: 35405 Species: Bull Kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana Location: British Columbia, Canada |
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| A forest of bull kelp rises above a colorful cold water reef, rich with invertebrate life. Browning Pass, Vancouver Island. Image ID: 35415 Species: Giant Plumose Anemone, Bull Kelp, Metridium farcimen, Nereocystis luetkeana Location: British Columbia, Canada | Acropora table coral on pristine tropical reef. Table coral competes for space on the coral reef by growing above and spreading over other coral species keeping them from receiving sunlight. Image ID: 31490 Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Acropora table coral (left) and Staghorn Coral (Acropora palifera, right) on pristine tropical reef. Table coral competes for space on the coral reef by growing above and spreading over other coral species keeping them from receiving sunlight. Image ID: 31541 Species: Staghorn Coral, Table Coral, Acropora palifera Location: Wakaya Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji |
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| Kelp holdfast attaches the plant to the rocky reef on the oceans bottom. Kelp blades are visible above the holdfast, swaying in the current. Image ID: 34211 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Kelp holdfast attaches the plant to the rocky reef on the oceans bottom. Kelp blades are visible above the holdfast, swaying in the current. Image ID: 34213 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | |
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