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| Galapagos sea lion, whiskers. Image ID: 10091 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | White (or fairy) tern. Image ID: 00865 Species: Fairy tern, Gygis alba Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA | Marine iguana, Punta Espinosa. Image ID: 01719 Species: Marine iguana, Amblyrhynchus cristatus Location: Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Nazca booby, Punta Suarez. Image ID: 01763 Species: Nazca booby, Sula granti Location: Hood Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Blue-footed booby, courtship display. Image ID: 01791 Species: Blue-footed booby, Sula nebouxii Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Sally Lightfoot crab. Image ID: 01896 Species: Sally lightfoot crab, Grapsus grapsus Location: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Galapagos penguin at sunset. Image ID: 02267 Species: Galapagos penguin, Spheniscus mendiculus Location: Bartolome Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | The South Fork of the Kings River flows through Kings Canyon National Park, in the southeastern Sierra mountain range. Grand Sentinel, a huge granite monolith, is visible on the right above pine trees. Late summer. Image ID: 09854 Location: Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA | Northern kelp crab crawls amidst kelp blades and stipes, midway in the water column (below the surface, above the ocean bottom) in a giant kelp forest. Image ID: 10218 Species: Northern kelp crab, Pugettia producta, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Nicholas Island, California, USA |
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| A garibaldi fish (orange), surf grass (green) and palm kelp (brown) on the rocky reef -- all appearing blurred in this time exposure -- are tossed back and forth by powerful ocean waves passing by above. San Clemente Island. Image ID: 10238 Species: Surfgrass, Phyllospadix, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | The Virgin River flows through the Zion Narrows, with tall sandstone walls towering hundreds of feet above. Image ID: 26122 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA | The Virgin River flows through the Zion Narrows, with tall sandstone walls towering hundreds of feet above. Image ID: 26123 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA |
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| The Virgin River flows through the Zion Narrows, with tall sandstone walls towering hundreds of feet above. Image ID: 26124 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA | The Virgin River flows through the Zion Narrows, with tall sandstone walls towering hundreds of feet above. Image ID: 26125 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA | The Virgin River flows through the Zion Narrows, with tall sandstone walls towering hundreds of feet above. Image ID: 26126 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA |
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| Yosemite Falls rises above Cooks Meadow. The 2425 falls, the tallest in North America, is at peak flow during a warm-weather springtime melt of Sierra snowpack. Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 16136 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Yosemite Falls rises above Cooks Meadow. The 2425 falls, the tallest in North America, is at peak flow during a warm-weather springtime melt of Sierra snowpack. Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 16138 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Galapagos land iguana. Image ID: 16581 Species: Galapagos land iguana, Conolophus subcristatus Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| 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: 21258 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Magnificent frigatebird (note blue eye ring), juvenile. Image ID: 02271 Species: Magnificent frigatebird, Fregata magnificens Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Crystal Pier, 872 feet long and built in 1925, extends out into the Pacific Ocean from the town of Pacific Beach. Mission Bay and downtown San Diego are seen in the distance. Image ID: 22465 Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Great white shark, research identification photograph. 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: 28768 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | San Diego city skyline, showing the buildings of downtown San Diego rising above San Diego Harbor, viewed from Point Loma with the San Diego Yacht Club in the foreground, sunset. Image ID: 22248 Location: San Diego, California, USA | Mammoth Peak rises above a placid Tioga Lake, at sunrise. Image ID: 23291 Location: Tioga Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Yosemite Falls rises above the Merced River, viewed from the Swinging Bridge. The 2425' falls is the tallest in North America. Image ID: 34547 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA Pano dimensions: 7921 x 5281 | ||
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| 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: 34939 Location: Fiji | Anthias fishes school in strong currents above hard and soft corals on a Fijian coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 34962 Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | 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: 34977 Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji |
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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: 35423 Species: Giant Plumose Anemone, Bull Kelp, Metridium farcimen, Nereocystis luetkeana Location: British Columbia, Canada | SIO Pier. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography research pier is 1090 feet long and was built of reinforced concrete in 1988, replacing the original wooden pier built in 1915. The Scripps Pier is home to a variety of sensing equipment above and below water that collects various oceanographic data. The Scripps research diving facility is located at the foot of the pier. Fresh seawater is pumped from the pier to the many tanks and facilities of SIO, including the Birch Aquarium. The Scripps Pier is named in honor of Ellen Browning Scripps, the most significant donor and benefactor of the Institution. Image ID: 36558 Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA | |
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