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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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