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Adelie penguins leaping into the ocean from an iceberg.
Image ID: 25005
Species: Adelie penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae
Location: Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica | Two Adelie penguins, holding their wings out, standing on an iceberg.
Image ID: 25007
Species: Adelie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae
Location: Paulet Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica | Humpback whale in Antarctica. A humpback whale swims through the beautiful ice-filled waters of Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.
Image ID: 25646
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Neko Harbor, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica |
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Blue whales, adult and juvenile (likely mother and calf), swimming together side by side underwater in the open ocean.
Image ID: 34568
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, the distinctive pyramid shaped southern end of the island. San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, showing geologic terracing, underwater reefs and giant kelp forests.
Image ID: 26003
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | A huge blue whale swims through the open ocean in this underwater photograph. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth.
Image ID: 34567
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater.
Image ID: 23432
Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Blue whale skeleton in Antarctica, on the shore at Port Lockroy, Antarctica. This skeleton is composed primarily of blue whale bones, but there are believed to be bones of other baleen whales included in the skeleton as well.
Image ID: 25604
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Port Lockroy, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica | Humpback whale lunge feeding on Antarctic krill, with mouth open and baleen visible. The humbpack's throat grooves are seen as its pleated throat becomes fully distended as the whale fills its mouth with krill and water. The water will be pushed out, while the baleen strains and retains the small krill.
Image ID: 25648
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Gerlache Strait, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica |
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Bryozoan grows on a red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by.
Image ID: 25395
Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Aerial photo of the West End of Catalina Island.
Image ID: 25978
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands.
Image ID: 02158
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Garibaldi swims in the kelp forest, sunlight filters through towering giant kelp plants rising from the ocean bottom to the surface, underwater.
Image ID: 23419
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by.
Image ID: 25393
Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Water falling from the fluke (tail) of a humpback whale as the whale dives to forage for food in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Image ID: 27029
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA |
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Southern Stingray, Stingray City, Grand Cayman Island.
Image ID: 32151
Species: Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
Location: Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands | Southern Stingray, Stingray City, Grand Cayman Island.
Image ID: 32161
Species: Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
Location: Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands | Southern Stingrays, Stingray City, Grand Cayman Island.
Image ID: 32162
Species: Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
Location: Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands |
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Southern Stingrays, Stingray City, Grand Cayman Island.
Image ID: 32171
Species: Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
Location: Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands | Southern Stingray, Stingray City, Grand Cayman Island.
Image ID: 32217
Species: Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
Location: Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands | Southern Stingray, Stingray City, Grand Cayman Island.
Image ID: 32222
Species: Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
Location: Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands |
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Southern Stingray, Stingray City, Grand Cayman Island.
Image ID: 32231
Species: Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
Location: Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands | Southern Stingray, Stingray City, Grand Cayman Island.
Image ID: 32232
Species: Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
Location: Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands | Southern Stingrays, Stingray City, Grand Cayman Island.
Image ID: 32235
Species: Southern Stingray, Dasyatis americana
Location: Stingray City, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands |
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Aerial photo of gray whale calf and mother. This baby gray whale was born during the southern migration, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place.
Image ID: 29017
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: San Clemente, California, USA | California sea lion, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions.
Image ID: 23418
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands.
Image ID: 02031
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands.
Image ID: 02159
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions.
Image ID: 23429
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara 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: 34560
Species: Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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