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A neonate gray whale calf, born just hours before, still exhbiting embryonic folds in the skin along its side. This baby gray whale was born in the cold waters of Big Sur, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place. Image ID: 01135 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Monterey, California, USA	Roosevelt elk, adult bull male with large antlers. This bull elk has recently shed the velvet that covers its antlers. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone; once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler, which is itself shed after each mating season. Roosevelt elk grow to 10' and 1300 lb, eating grasses, sedges and various berries, inhabiting the coastal rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Image ID: 25890 Species: Roosevelt elk, Cervus canadensis roosevelti Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA	Roosevelt elk, adult bull male with large antlers. This bull elk has recently shed the velvet that covers its antlers. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone; once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler, which is itself shed after each mating season. Roosevelt elk grow to 10' and 1300 lb, eating grasses, sedges and various berries, inhabiting the coastal rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Image ID: 25878 Species: Roosevelt elk, Cervus canadensis roosevelti Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA

Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada. Image ID: 35313 Location: British Columbia, Canada	Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada. Image ID: 35314 Location: British Columbia, Canada	Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada. Image ID: 35373 Location: British Columbia, Canada

Three California brown pelicans mock jousting, displaying vividly-colored throat skin and mating plumage. Image ID: 36725 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, Pelecanus occidentalis Location: La Jolla, California, USA	Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are usually almost entirely white. Image ID: 12792 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA	Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are usually almost entirely white. Image ID: 12799 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA

Rissos dolphin surfacing with eye showing. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 02314 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA	Rissos dolphin, breaching. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego. Image ID: 00983 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA	Gray whale, neonate calf with embryonic folds visible. Image ID: 01129 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Monterey, California, USA

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	Ocean sunfish, basking at surface, viewed from underwater, open ocean. Image ID: 03311 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA	Ocean sunfish, sunning/basking at surface, open ocean. Image ID: 03498 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA

Ocean sunfish, sunning/basking at surface, open ocean. Image ID: 03499 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA	Ocean sunfish basking flat on the ocean surface, open ocean. Image ID: 06268 Species: Ocean sunfish, Mola mola Location: San Diego, California, USA	A Rissos dolphin leaps from the ocean in a full breach. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego. Image ID: 07597 Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus Location: San Diego, California, USA

An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 07573 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA	An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 07577 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA	Teddy-Bear cholla cactus. This species is covered with dense spines and pieces easily detach and painfully attach to the skin of distracted passers-by. Image ID: 26773 Species: Teddy-bear Cholla, Opuntia bigelovii Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA

Blue whale rounding out at surface, before diving for food, showing characteristic blue/gray mottled skin pattern. Image ID: 27346 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: Dana Point, California, USA	Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada. Image ID: 35443 Location: British Columbia, Canada	Starfish detail, sea star skin details, Vancouver Island, Canada. Image ID: 35444 Location: British Columbia, Canada

Two California brown pelicans mock jousting, displaying vividly-colored throat skin and mating plumage. Image ID: 36720 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, Pelecanus occidentalis Location: La Jolla, California, USA	Harbor Seal basking on reef, La Jolla Children's Pool. Image ID: 36912	Two California brown pelicans mock jousting, displaying vividly-colored throat skin and mating plumage. Image ID: 36703 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, Pelecanus occidentalis Location: La Jolla, California, USA

Large male elk (bull) in snow covered meadow near Madison River. Only male elk have antlers, which start growing in the spring and are shed each winter. The largest antlers may be 4 feet long and weigh up to 40 pounds. Antlers are made of bone which can grow up to one inch per day. While growing, the antlers are covered with and protected by a soft layer of highly vascularised skin known as velvet. The velvet is shed in the summer when the antlers have fully developed. Bull elk may have six or more tines on each antler, however the number of tines has little to do with the age or maturity of a particular animal. Image ID: 19692 Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA	Gray whale dorsal aspect showing blowhole and characteristic skin mottling and ectoparasitic barnacles and whale lice (amphipod crustaceans). Image ID: 30456 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: San Diego, California, USA	Roosevelt elk, adult bull male with large antlers. This bull elk has recently shed the velvet that covers its antlers. While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone; once the antler has achieved its full size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler, which is itself shed after each mating season. Roosevelt elk grow to 10' and 1300 lb, eating grasses, sedges and various berries, inhabiting the coastal rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. Image ID: 25880 Species: Roosevelt elk, Cervus canadensis roosevelti Location: Redwood National Park, California, USA