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| North Pacific humpback whales, a mother and calf pair swim closely together just under the surface of the ocean. The calf will remain with its mother for about a year, migrating from Hawaii to Alaska to feed on herring. Image ID: 00140 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, 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 | 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 |
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| Blue whales feeding on krill underwater closeup photo. A picture of a blue whale with its throat pleats inflated with a mouthful of krill. A calf swims behind and below the adult. Over 80' long and just a few feet from the camera, an extremely wide lens was used to photograph the entire enormous whale. Image ID: 27314 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: California, USA | Colorful and exotic coral reef in Fiji, with soft corals, hard corals, anthias fishes, anemones, and sea fan gorgonians. Image ID: 34739 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji | Dendronephthya soft corals and schooling Anthias fishes, feeding on plankton in strong ocean currents over a pristine coral reef. Fiji is known as the soft coral capitlal of the world. Image ID: 31318 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Gau Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji |
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| Dendronephthya soft corals and schooling Anthias fishes, feeding on plankton in strong ocean currents over a pristine coral reef. Fiji is known as the soft coral capitlal of the world. Image ID: 31319 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Spectacularly colorful dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 31322 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Fiji | Humpback whale lunge feeding on Antarctic krill, with mouth open and baleen visible. The humbpack's throat grooves are seen as its pleated throat becomes fully distended as the whale fills its mouth with krill and water. The water will be pushed out, while the baleen strains and retains the small krill. Image ID: 25648 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica |
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| Bryozoan grows on a red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25395 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25393 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Acorn Barnacle extends to feed in ocean current, amid colony of Corynactis anemones. Image ID: 33455 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Acorn Barnacle, Corynactis californica, Megabalanus californicus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Dendronephthya soft corals and schooling Anthias fishes, feeding on plankton in strong ocean currents over a pristine coral reef. Fiji is known as the soft coral capitlal of the world. Image ID: 34742 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji | Anthias fishes school over the colorful Fijian coral reef, everything taking advantage of currents that bring planktonic food. Fiji. Image ID: 34747 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Spectacularly colorful dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34754 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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| Colorful and exotic coral reef in Fiji, with soft corals, hard corals, anthias fishes, anemones, and sea fan gorgonians. Image ID: 34763 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji | Spectacularly colorful dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34764 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Fiji | Manta Ray Feeding on Plankton, Fiji. Image ID: 31323 Species: Giant manta ray, Manta birostris Location: Gau Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji |
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| Spectacularly colorful dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 31335 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Nigali Passage, Gau Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji | Dendronephthya soft corals and schooling Anthias fishes, feeding on plankton in strong ocean currents over a pristine coral reef. Fiji is known as the soft coral capitlal of the world. Image ID: 31338 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji | Dendronephthya soft corals and schooling Anthias fishes, feeding on plankton in strong ocean currents over a pristine coral reef. Fiji is known as the soft coral capitlal of the world. Image ID: 31340 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji |
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| Green sea turtle foraging for algae on coral reef, Chelonia mydas, West Maui, Hawaii. Image ID: 34507 Species: Green Sea Turtle, Chelonia mydas Location: Maui, Hawaii, 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: 07668 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | 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: 07723 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Acorn Barnacle extends to feed in ocean current, amid colony of Corynactis anemones. Image ID: 33473 Species: Strawberry Anemone, Acorn Barnacle, Corynactis californica, Megabalanus californicus Location: San Diego, California, USA | 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: 19454 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Spectacularly colorful dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 31353 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Namena Marine Reserve, Namena Island, Fiji |
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| 30 bald eagles, part of a group of several hundred, perch on driftwood and stand on the ground waiting to be fed frozen herring as part of the Homer "Eagle Lady's" winter eagle feeding program. Image ID: 22600 Species: Bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis Location: Kachemak Bay, Homer, Alaska, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 25394 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Colorful and exotic coral reef in Fiji, with soft corals, hard corals, anthias fishes, anemones, and sea fan gorgonians. Image ID: 34802 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji |
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