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Urchins on sand, black and white / grainy, Isla Lobos
Urchins on sand, black and white / grainy.
Location: Isla Lobos, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16420  
Unidentified sea urchin, Cousins
Unidentified sea urchin.
Location: Cousins, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 16423  
Purple sea urchins on rocky reef amid kelp forest, Macrocystis pyrifera, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple sea urchins on rocky reef amid kelp forest.
Species: Purple urchin, Macrocystis pyrifera, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 03111  
Purple urchins destroying/eating giant kelp holdfast, Macrocystis pyrifera, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple urchins destroying/eating giant kelp holdfast.
Species: Purple urchin, Macrocystis pyrifera, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 03403  
Purple and red urchins, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple and red urchins.
Species: Purple urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 04725  
Purple sea urchin, spawning, releasing gametes into the ocean currents. Once adult purple sea urchins have reached sexual maturity, females and males release gametes into the ocean, a mode of external fertilization. The fertilized egg later settles, and begins growing into an adult, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Purple sea urchin, spawning, releasing gametes into the ocean currents. Once adult purple sea urchins have reached sexual maturity, females and males release gametes into the ocean, a mode of external fertilization. The fertilized egg later settles, and begins growing into an adult.
Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Image ID: 05346  
Purple urchin attacked by starfish, Coronados, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado)
Purple urchin attacked by starfish, Coronados.
Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 01984  
Red urchin on rocky California reef, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus
Red urchin on rocky California reef.
Species: Red urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus
Location: California
Image ID: 03801  
Red urchin on rocky California reef, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus
Red urchin on rocky California reef.
Species: Red urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus
Location: California
Image ID: 03802  
Purple and red urchins, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple and red urchins.
Species: Purple urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 04724  
Purple and red urchins, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple and red urchins.
Species: Purple urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 04727  
Purple and red urchins, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple and red urchins.
Species: Purple urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 04730  
Small fish trapped in spines of unidentified urchin, San Miguel Island
Small fish trapped in spines of unidentified urchin.
Location: San Miguel Island, California
Image ID: 07016  
Urchin holes on rocky reef, Albany, James Island
Urchin holes on rocky reef, Albany.
Location: James Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Image ID: 01885  
Red urchin, strawberry anemones and aggregating anemones on rocky California reef, Anthopleura elegantissima, Corynactis californica, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus
Red urchin, strawberry anemones and aggregating anemones on rocky California reef.
Species: Red urchin, Anthopleura elegantissima, Corynactis californica, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus
Location: California
Image ID: 03798  
Purple urchin and strawberry anemones on rocky California reef, Corynactis californica, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Purple urchin and strawberry anemones on rocky California reef.
Species: Purple urchin, Corynactis californica, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: California
Image ID: 03799  
Purple and red urchins, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple and red urchins.
Species: Purple urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 04726  
Purple and red urchins, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple and red urchins.
Species: Purple urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 04728  
Purple and red urchins, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple and red urchins.
Species: Purple urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 04729  
Purple and red urchins, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, Santa Barbara Island
Purple and red urchins.
Species: Purple urchin, Strogylocentrotus franciscanus, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 04731  
Purple sea urchins on rocky reef amid kelp forest
Purple sea urchins on rocky reef amid kelp forest.
Image ID: 05113  
Purple sea urchins on rocky reef amid kelp forest
Purple sea urchins on rocky reef amid kelp forest.
Image ID: 05270  
Unidentified marine urchins in a rock crevice, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)
Unidentified marine urchins in a rock crevice.
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 09577  
Unidentified marine urchin, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)
Unidentified marine urchin.
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 09579  
Wolf eel, although similar in shape to eels, is cartilaginous and not a true fish. Its powerful jaws can crush invertibrates, such as spiny sea urchins. It can grow to 6 feet (2m) in length, Anarrhichthys ocellatus
Wolf eel, although similar in shape to eels, is cartilaginous and not a true fish. Its powerful jaws can crush invertibrates, such as spiny sea urchins. It can grow to 6 feet (2m) in length.
Species: Wolf eel, Anarrhichthys ocellatus
Image ID: 09835  
Purple and black sea urchins on a rocky reef. The urchins will clear all kelp off a reef if their population is not held in balance by predictors. Santa Barbara Island, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Purple and black sea urchins on a rocky reef. The urchins will clear all kelp off a reef if their population is not held in balance by predictors. Santa Barbara Island.
Species: Purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 10142  
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, Enhydra lutris, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
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.
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
Image ID: 21689  
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, Enhydra lutris, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
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.
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
Image ID: 21694  
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, Enhydra lutris, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
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.
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
Image ID: 21695  
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, Enhydra lutris, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
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.
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
Image ID: 21724  
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