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| Great hammerhead shark. Image ID: 31966 Species: Great hammerhead shark, Sphyrna mokarran Location: Bimini, Bahamas | Two tiger sharks. Image ID: 31875 Species: Tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier Location: Bahamas | A great white shark opens it mouth just before it attacks its prey with a crippling, powerful bite. After the prey has been disabled, the shark will often wait for it to weaken from blood loss before resuming the attack. If the shark looses a tooth in the course of the bite, a replacement just behind it will move forward to take its place. Image ID: 19452 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| 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 | A great white shark 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: 07666 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Galapagos shark swims over a reef in the Galapagos Islands, with schooling fish in the distance. Image ID: 16240 Species: Galapagos shark, Carcharhinus galapagensis Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Scalloped hammerhead shark swims over a reef in the Galapagos Islands. The hammerheads eyes and other sensor organs are placed far apart on its wide head to give the shark greater ability to sense the location of prey. Image ID: 16246 Species: Scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Mexico's Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and use it as a staging area before journeying farther into the Pacific ocean. Image ID: 19465 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A white tern, or fairy tern, alights on a branch at Rose Atoll in American Samoa. Image ID: 00871 Species: Fairy tern, Gygis alba Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA |
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| Tiger shark and horse-eye jacks. Image ID: 31880 Species: Tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier Location: Bahamas | Tiger shark and underwater photographer. Image ID: 31877 Species: Tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier Location: Bahamas | Tiger shark. Image ID: 31883 Species: Tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier Location: Bahamas |
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| A great white shark swims underwater through the ocean at Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 21347 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Blue shark underneath drift kelp, open ocean. Image ID: 01006 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca Location: San Diego, California, USA | A blue shark swims through the open ocean in search of prey, backlit by the sunset. Image ID: 02286 Species: Blue shark, Prionace glauca Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Caribbean reef shark, ampullae of Lorenzini visible on snout. Image ID: 10550 Species: Caribbean reef shark, Carcharhinus perezi Location: Bahamas | Plexauridae sea fan or gorgonian on coral reef. This gorgonian is a type of colonial alcyonacea soft coral that filters plankton from passing ocean currents. Image ID: 34707 Species: Gorgonian, Gorgonacea Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Tiger shark. Image ID: 10648 Species: Tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier Location: Bahamas |
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| Brilliantlly colorful coral reef, with swarms of anthias fishes and soft corals, Fiji. Image ID: 34708 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Closeup view of colorful dendronephthya soft corals, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34713 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Dendronephthya soft coral detail including polyps and calcium carbonate spicules, Fiji. Image ID: 34715 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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| Sunset light and 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: 31315 Location: Wakaya Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji | Closeup view of colorful dendronephthya soft corals, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34709 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Fiji | Crinoid (feather star) extends its tentacles into ocean currents, on pristine south pacific coral reef, Fiji. Image ID: 34710 Species: Crinoid Feather Star, Crinoidea Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji |
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| Leather coral, Sinularia sp., Fiji. Image ID: 34711 Species: Sinularia Soft Coral, Sinularia Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Plexauridae sea fan or gorgonian on coral reef. This gorgonian is a type of colonial alcyonacea soft coral that filters plankton from passing ocean currents. Image ID: 34712 Species: Gorgonian, Gorgonacea Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Spectacular display of pristine cabbage coral, Turbinaria reniformis, in Nigali Pass on Gao Island, Fiji. Image ID: 34714 Species: Cabbage Coral, Turbinaria reniformis Location: Nigali Passage, Gau Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji |
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| Beautiful South Pacific coral reef, with Plexauridae sea fans, schooling anthias fish and colorful dendronephthya soft corals, Fiji. Image ID: 34716 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Gorgonian, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Gorgonacea, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji | Brilliantlly colorful coral reef, with swarms of anthias fishes and soft corals, Fiji. Image ID: 34717 Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji | Colorful Chironephthya soft coral coloniea in Fiji, hanging off wall, resembling sea fans or gorgonians. Image ID: 34718 Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji |
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