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| Guadalupe fur seals, floating upside down underwater over a rocky reef covered with golden kelp at Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 02113 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Guadalupe fur seal, floating upside down under the ocean's surface at Guadalupe Island, watching the photographer and looking for passing predators. Image ID: 02114 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | 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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| Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 00627 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | 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 | 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 |
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| 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 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 | Ocean sunfish recruiting fish near drift kelp to clean parasites, open ocean, Baja California. Image ID: 03267 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola |
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| California sea lions underwater, Coronados Islands, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 34577 Species: California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | 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 |
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| 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 | The bright orange garibaldi fish, California's state marine fish, is also clownlike in appearance. Image ID: 02416 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: California, USA | San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, the distinctive pyramid shaped southern end of the island. San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, showing geologic terracing, underwater reefs and giant kelp forests. Image ID: 26003 Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| California sea lion and diver consider each other, underwater in the clear ocean water of Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 02251 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | A northern elephant seal hovers underwater over a rocky bottom along the coastline of Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 03505 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | California sea lions underwater, Coronados Islands, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 34575 Species: California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico |
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| California sea lion, Coronados Islands, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 34576 Species: California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Juvenile Northern Elephant Seal Underwater, Coronado Islands, Mexico. Image ID: 36465 Species: Elephant Seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | California Sea Lions Underwater, Coronado Islands, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 36466 Species: California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico |
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| California Sea Lions Underwater, Coronado Islands, Baja California, Mexico. Image ID: 36467 Species: California Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Image ID: 31204 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | California sea lions underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Image ID: 31205 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico |
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| California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Image ID: 31206 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Image ID: 31207 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | Sea lion underwater in beautiful sunset light. Image ID: 31208 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico |
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| Sea lion blowing underwater bubbles as it stands on its flippers. Image ID: 31210 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Image ID: 31211 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | |
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| Cabo Pearce on Socorro Island, aerial photo, Revillagigedos Islands, Mexico. Image ID: 32905 Location: Socorro Island (Islas Revillagigedos), Baja California, Mexico Pano dimensions: 4282 x 11583 | ||
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