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California golden gorgonian on rocky reef, underwater. 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: 25397
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Brown gorgonians on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. Gorgonians are filter-feeding temperate colonial species that live 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: 25398
Species: Brown gorgonian, Muricea fruticosa
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath.
Image ID: 21257
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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Blue whale, exhaling as it surfaces from a dive, aerial photo. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight.
Image ID: 25955
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling as it surfaces from a dive, aerial photo. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight.
Image ID: 25957
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling as it surfaces from a dive, aerial photo. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight.
Image ID: 25962
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA |
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A humpback whale raises it fluke out of the water, the coast of Del Mar and La Jolla is visible in the distance.
Image ID: 27137
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Del Mar, California, USA | A humpback whale raises it fluke out of the water, the coast of Del Mar and La Jolla is visible in the distance.
Image ID: 27141
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Del Mar, California, USA | North Pacific humpback whale.
Image ID: 00167
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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Brown gorgonians, Catalina.
Image ID: 00567
Species: Brown gorgonian, Muricea fruticosa
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Blue whale fluke, powerful tail that propels the huge whale through the open ocean.
Image ID: 01911
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | North Pacific humpback whale raising its fluke before diving underwater to forage for herring in southeast Alaska.
Image ID: 02154
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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Blue whale, mother and calf.
Image ID: 02301
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Humpback whale breaching.
Image ID: 03855
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Humpback whale breaching.
Image ID: 03875
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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Humpback whale breaching.
Image ID: 03926
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | A blue whale eating krill. This blue whale is seen feeding and surfacing amid krill with its throat fully engorged with krill and water. It will push the water back out with its tongue, trapping the krill in its baleen which acts like a filter. Aerial photo, Baja California.
Image ID: 05837
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | An enormous blue whale raises its fluke (tail) high out of the water before diving. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07554
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Blue whale.
Image ID: 01901
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale, the largest animal ever to inhabit earth, swims through the open ocean, aerial view.
Image ID: 02165
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale, blowing.
Image ID: 02182
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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Blue whale.
Image ID: 02190
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale, mottled skin, vertebrae, inflated throat, swimming at surface in the open ocean between foraging dives, aerial view.
Image ID: 02195
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale.
Image ID: 02199
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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Blue whale, caudal stem, fluke with median notch.
Image ID: 02220
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale, fluke, tail with median notch, lifting tail before diving in the open ocean.
Image ID: 02221
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale, the largest animal ever to inhabit earth, swims through the open ocean, raising fluke (tail) before making a deep dive.
Image ID: 02226
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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Blue whale, fluke up before dive.
Image ID: 02310
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | California Golden gorgonian, red gorgonian, sheephead.
Image ID: 02533
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Lophogorgia chilensis, Semicossyphus pulcher
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling at surface, Baja California.
Image ID: 03031
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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