Tropical scorpionfishes are camoflage experts, changing color and apparent texture in order to masquerade as rocks, clumps of algae or detritus.
Species: Rhinopias
Image ID: 14496
Tropical scorpionfishes are camoflage experts, changing color and apparent texture in order to masquerade as rocks, clumps of algae or detritus.
Species: Rhinopias
Image ID: 14497
Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, with Marine Memorial Golf Course visible at far right.
Location: Oceanside, California
Image ID: 25994
Camp Pendleton, viewed toward the north, including Pacific ocean and Interstate 5 freeway. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
Location: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California
Image ID: 25995
Camp Pendleton, viewed toward the north, including Pacific ocean and Interstate 5 freeway. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
Location: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California
Image ID: 25996
Camp Pendleton and Santa Margarita River, Pacific coastline, north of San Diego county and the city of Oceanside. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
Location: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California
Image ID: 25999
Camp Pendleton and Santa Margarita River, Pacific coastline, north of San Diego county and the city of Oceanside. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
Location: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California
Image ID: 26000
Juvenile rockfish school under a patch of drift kelp, open ocean.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 07001
A group of Rissos dolphin surfaces. Extensive scarring on adult Rissos dolphins allows identification of individuals based on their dorsal fins, provided the identification methodology incorporates scarring acquired in future years. Offshore near San Diego.
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 07601
Fossil sea scorpion, a eurypterid marine predator of the late Paleozoic (Ordovician to Permian). From the Fiddler's Green geologic formation, Silurian age (c. 410 mya).
Species: Sea scorpion, Eurypterus remipes
Image ID: 23093