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| Golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, amid kelp forest, Catalina Island. The golden gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 34219 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Garibaldi and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, San Clemente Island. The golden gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 30864 Species: Garibaldi, California golden gorgonian, Hypsypops rubicundus, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Garibaldi and 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: 30870 Species: Garibaldi, Red gorgonian, Hypsypops rubicundus, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef below kelp forest, San Clemente Island. The golden gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by, San Clemente Island. The golden gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 30909 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Blacksmith Chromis and California golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, San Clemente Island. The golden gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Image ID: 30956 Species: Blacksmith, California golden gorgonian, Chromis punctipinnis, Muricea californica Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Spectacularly colorful dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 31442 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Fiji |
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| A great white shark bearing a white plastic researcher's identification ID tag near its dorsal fin 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: 07739 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Blue whale feeding on krill underwater closeup photo. A picture of a blue whale with its throat pleats inflated with a mouthful of krill. Image ID: 27309 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: California, USA | Brown pelicans feeding on krill. Image ID: 03171 Species: Brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Expert hand feeds multiple tiger sharks in the Bahamas. Image ID: 31899 Species: Tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier Location: Bahamas | Humpback whale lunge feeding on Antarctic krill, with mouth open and baleen visible. The humbpack's pink 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: 25660 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica | 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: 07667 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 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: 07733 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: 19453 Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Red gorgonian polyps. The red gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of tiny polyps. Each polyp secretes calcium which accumulates to form the structure of the colony. The fan-shaped gorgonian is oriented perpendicular to prevailing ocean currents to better enable to filter-feeding polyps to capture passing plankton and detritus passing by. Image ID: 03480 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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| Snow geese rest on a still pond in rich orange and yellow sunrise light. These geese have spent their night's rest on the main empoundment and will leave around sunrise to feed in nearby corn fields. Image ID: 21802 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Fiji is the soft coral capital of the world, Seen here are beautifully colorful dendronephthya soft corals reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34783 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Anthias fishes school over the colorful Fijian coral reef, everything taking advantage of currents that bring planktonic food. Fiji. Image ID: 34789 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji |
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| Anthias fishes school over the colorful Fijian coral reef, everything taking advantage of currents that bring planktonic food. Fiji. Image ID: 34792 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Fiji is the soft coral capital of the world, Seen here are beautifully colorful dendronephthya soft corals reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34814 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Fiji is the soft coral capital of the world, Seen here are beautifully colorful dendronephthya soft corals reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34829 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji |
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| Anthias fishes school over the colorful Fijian coral reef, everything taking advantage of currents that bring planktonic food. Fiji. Image ID: 34832 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Spectacularly colorful dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34839 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Nigali Passage, Gau Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji | Colorful and exotic coral reef in Fiji, with soft corals, hard corals, anthias fishes, anemones, and sea fan gorgonians. Image ID: 34849 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji |
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| Anthias fishes school over the colorful Fijian coral reef, everything taking advantage of currents that bring planktonic food. Fiji. Image ID: 34836 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji | Spectacularly colorful dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34854 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya 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: 34856 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Anthias, Dendronephthya, Pseudanthias Location: Fiji |
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| Vibrant displays of color among dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34867 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Vibrant displays of color among dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34868 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji | Vibrant displays of color among dendronephthya soft corals on South Pacific reef, reaching out into strong ocean currents to capture passing planktonic food, Fiji. Image ID: 34869 Species: Dendronephthya Soft Coral, Dendronephthya Location: Vatu I Ra Passage, Bligh Waters, Viti Levu Island, Fiji |
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