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| Bottlenose dolphin, leaping over the surface of the ocean, offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 26812 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Bottlenose dolphin, bubbles forming in its exhalation just below the surface of the ocean, offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 26814 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Bottlenose dolphin, breaching the surface of the ocean, offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 26815 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Bottlenose dolphin, breaching the surface of the ocean, offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 26816 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: San Diego, California, USA | This bull elephant seal surveys his territory. He shows scarring on his chest and proboscis from fighting other males for territory and rights to a harem of females. Sandy beach rookery, winter, Central California. Image ID: 15391 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | An adult male elephant seal rests on a wet beach. He displays the enormous proboscis characteristic of male elephant seals as well as considerable scarring on his neck from fighting with other males for territory. Central California. Image ID: 15439 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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| An adult male elephant seal rests on a sandy beach. He shows the enormous proboscis characteristic of male elephant seals, as well as considerable scarring on his neck from fighting with other males for territory. Central California. Image ID: 15440 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | An adult male elephant seal rests on a wet beach. He displays the enormous proboscis characteristic of male elephant seals as well as considerable scarring on his neck from fighting with other males for territory. Central California. Image ID: 15442 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Bull elephant seal, adult male, bellowing. Its huge proboscis is characteristic of male elephant seals. Scarring from combat with other males. Central California. Image ID: 15453 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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| This bull elephant seal, an old adult male, shows extreme scarring on his chest and proboscis from many winters fighting other males for territory and rights to a harem of females. Image ID: 20393 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Barberfish schooling. Image ID: 16354 Species: Barberfish, Johnrandallia nigrirostris Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Barberfish schooling. Image ID: 16357 Species: Barberfish, Johnrandallia nigrirostris Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Bottlenose dolphin. Image ID: 16411 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: Wolf Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Southern elephant seal, juvenile. The southern elephant seal is the largest pinniped, and the largest member of order Carnivora, ever to have existed. It gets its name from the large proboscis (nose) it has when it has grown to adulthood. Image ID: 24579 Species: Southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina Location: Hercules Bay, South Georgia Island | Bottlenose dolphin, swimming just below the surface of the glassy ocean, offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 26811 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Pacific bottlenose dolphin breaches the ocean surface as it leaps and takes a breath. Open ocean near San Diego. Image ID: 07158 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Pacific bottlenose dolphin hydrodynamically slices the ocean as it surfaces to breathe. Open ocean near San Diego. Image ID: 07165 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: San Diego, California, USA | A curious Pacific bottlenose dolphin leaps from the ocean surface to look at the photographer. Open ocean near San Diego. Image ID: 07167 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Southern giant petrel in flight. The distinctive tube nose (naricorn), characteristic of species in the Procellariidae family (tube-snouts), is easily seen. Image ID: 23677 Species: Southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Southern giant petrel in flight, soaring over the open ocean. This large seabird has a wingspan up to 80" from wing-tip to wing-tip. Image ID: 23684 Species: Southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Southern giant petrel in flight at dusk, after sunset, as it soars over the open ocean in search of food. Image ID: 23685 Species: Southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Southern giant petrel in flight, soaring over the open ocean. This large seabird has a wingspan up to 80" from wing-tip to wing-tip. Image ID: 23687 Species: Southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Northern giant petrel scavenging a fur seal carcass. Giant petrels will often feed on carrion, defending it in a territorial manner from other petrels and carrion feeders. Image ID: 23688 Species: Northern giant petrel, Macronectes halli Location: Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island | Northern giant petrel, opening beak, sitting on pebble beach. Image ID: 23689 Species: Northern giant petrel, Macronectes halli Location: Right Whale Bay, South Georgia Island |
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| Northern giant petrel in flight at dusk, after sunset, as it soars over the open ocean in search of food. Image ID: 23690 Species: Northern giant petrel, Macronectes halli Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Northern giant petrel in flight. The distinctive tube nose (naricorn), characteristic of species in the Procellariidae family (tube-snouts), is easily seen. Image ID: 23691 Species: Northern giant petrel, Macronectes halli Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Southern giant petrel in flight at dusk, after sunset, as it soars over the open ocean in search of food. Image ID: 23692 Species: Southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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| Southern giant petrel in flight. The distinctive tube nose (naricorn), characteristic of species in the Procellariidae family (tube-snouts), is easily seen. Image ID: 23693 Species: Southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Southern giant petrel in flight, soaring over the open ocean. This large seabird has a wingspan up to 80" from wing-tip to wing-tip. Image ID: 23694 Species: Southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom | Pintado petrel, in flight, a small open-ocean seabird known for its distinctive black and white coloration. Image ID: 23695 Species: Pintado petrel, Daption capense Location: Falkland Islands, United Kingdom |
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