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| Sunlight spreads across broad sand plains, trochoidal patterns. Image ID: 05665 Location: Bahamas | Squid egg masses attached to sandy bottom. Image ID: 03113 Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Mating squid and egg masses attached to sandy bottom. Image ID: 03114 Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Videographer films mating squid and egg masses attached to sandy bottom. Image ID: 03115 Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Sand, water and light. Image ID: 05656 Location: Bahamas | Sand, water and light. Image ID: 05669 |
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| Water, sand and light. Image ID: 04765 Location: Sea of Cortez, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico | Sand ripples. Image ID: 05646 | Sand ripples. Image ID: 05647 |
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| Sand, water and light. Image ID: 05660 Location: Bahamas | Sand, water and light. Image ID: 05661 Location: Bahamas | Sand, water and light. Image ID: 05663 Location: Bahamas |
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| A starfish (sea star) on the sandy bottom. Image ID: 10141 Species: Giant sea star, Pisaster giganteus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet. Image ID: 10856 Species: Turtle grass, Thalassia testudinum Location: Great Isaac Island, Bahamas | Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet. Image ID: 10857 Species: Turtle grass, Thalassia testudinum Location: Great Isaac Island, Bahamas |
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| Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet. Image ID: 10858 Species: Turtle grass, Thalassia testudinum Location: Great Isaac Island, Bahamas | French grunts over a sandy bottom and sea fans. Northern Bahamas. Image ID: 10883 Location: Bahamas | Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet. Image ID: 10890 Species: Turtle grass, Thalassia testudinum Location: Great Isaac Island, Bahamas |
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| A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs. Image ID: 21689 Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California, USA | A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs. Image ID: 21694 Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California, USA | A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs. Image ID: 21695 Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California, USA |
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| A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs. Image ID: 21724 Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California, USA | Drift kelp has washed ashore on a sandy California beach. Winter brings large surf and increased wave energy which often rips giant kelp from the ocean bottom, so that it floats down current, often washing ashore. Image ID: 14883 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara, California, USA |
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