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Picture of an axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, Mexican salamander, an example of neoteny, it retains larval characteristices in adult stage, such as external gills, found only in freshwater channels near Mexico City
Image #: 070748 |
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Picture of Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella
frontalis, mating, note tooth rakes on head
of female above, Bahamas,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Image #: 001808 |
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Picture of garbage and marine debris at South Point,
Hawaii. Marine debris from around the world washed
up on these beaches at South Point due to strong wind
and current, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Image #: 020014 |
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Picture of super macro, five grains of sand from Maui, Hawaii, Pacific, magnified 300x
Image #: 078934 |
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Picture of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, Israel,
Red Sea
Image #: 005408 |
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Picture of Irrawaddy dolphins, Orcaella brevirostris. In the lower Mekong river is a relic population of an endemic sub- species isolated for more than 10000 years. Totally cut off from the sea, the hundred or so individuals are restricted upstream to the Laos border.
Image #: 065696 |
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Picture of Amazon river dolphin, boto or pink river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, the largest true freshwater dolphin, Amazon and Orinoco River basins
Image #: 010682 |
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Picture of of Chinese river dolphin or baiji, Lipotes vexillifer, China
Image #: 092242 |
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Picture of a coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis, a living fossil, Bunaken National Park, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean
Image #: 011254-D |
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Picture of a shovelnose guitarfish, Rhinobatus productus, California, East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 004671 |
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Picture of White's seahorse or sea horses, Hippocampus
whitei, mating, female transferring eggs to
male's pouch, Australia
Image #: 009046 |
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Picture of a smalltooth sawfish or wide sawfish, Pristis pectinata, endangered, Everglades National Park, Florida Gulf of Mexico
Image #: 030311 |
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Picture of hiker on 4th of July looking at giant
bubbles of lava exploding, Waikupanaha ocean entry,
east of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kalapana, Hawaii,
The Big Island of Hawaii
Image #: 102863 |
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Picture of giant squid, Architeuthis dux, illustration
Image #: 014133 |
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Picture of a palolo worm, Palola siciliensis, entire worm with palolo ( epitoke ) attached, female containing eggs, Tutuila Island, American Samoa, Pacific Ocean
Image #: 009328 |
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Picture of harbor porpoise, also know as common porpoise, Phocoena
phocoena, Fjord Beltcenter, Kerteminde, Denmark
Image #: 000842 |
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Picture of the Hawaiian
monk seal, Monachus schauinslandi, among the
most endangered species of all seals. To raise awareness
for the species' plight, the Hawaiian monk seal was
declared Hawaii's official State Mammal on June 11,
2008 by Lieutenant Governor James Aiona.
Image #: 000230 |
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Picture of Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, endangered, Deserta Islands, Portugal, Atlantic
Image #: 070980 |
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Picture of goblin shark,
Mitsukurina owstoni, specimen, a deep sea
shark. It got its name from its bizarre and scary
appearance - it looks weird and different from other
sharks. The Japanese fishermen who caught
the first specimen in the Black Current
off Yokohama called it tenguzame, which means goblin
shark.
Image #: 000658 |
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Picture of a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, lower jaw removes plug of victim's flesh
Image #:002847 |
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Picture of great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias,
breaching out of water to seize imitation seal towed
as a lure, False Bay, South Africa
Image #: 0002922 |
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Picture of Greenland sleeper shark, Somniosus
microcephalus, with parasitic copepod, Ommatokoita
elongata, attached to eye of shark, St. Lawrence
River estuary, Canada. This shark was wild and unrestrained;
it was not hooked and tail-roped.
Image #: 035449 |
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Picture of megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios,
off California, Pacific Ocean, an extremely rare and
unusual species of shark
Image #: 009142 |
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Picture of porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada, Atlantic Ocean
Image #: 089484 |
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Picture of pygmy shark, Euprotomicrus bispinatus, that can be found in open ocean on the surface at night, to below 1800 metres in the daytime
Image #: 002841 |
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Picture of salmon shark, Lamna ditropis, specimen, central California, Pacific Ocean
Image #: 001279-V |
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Picture of longnose, or southern, sawshark, Pristiophorus cirratus, Australia
Image #: 002842 |
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Picture of live birth of a lemon shark, Negraprion
brevirostris, as pup emerges tail first, wrapped
in chorionic membranes, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea
Image #: 001956 |
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Picture of blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, feeding
on krill, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
Image #: 010494 |
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Picture of a dwarf sperm whale, Kogia simus, leaping, Caribbean
Image #: 025472 |
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Picture of north Atlantic right whale, endangered, Eubalaena glacialis, off Brier Island, Bay of Fundy, Canada, Atlantic Ocean
Image #: 009789 |
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