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European eel (Anguilla anguilla) moving through seaweed in the middle of the night - Seudre estuary - Charente-Maritime - France
© Bruno Guénard / Biosphoto
© Bruno Guénard / Biosphoto
European eel (Anguilla anguilla) moving through seaweed in the middle of the night - Seudre estuary - Charente-Maritime - France
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Smaragdia viridis, small mollusc associated with seagrass beds (Caulerpa prolifera). Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands, Tenerife.
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
Smaragdia viridis, small mollusc associated with seagrass beds (Caulerpa prolifera). Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands, Tenerife.
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Trichodesmium, also called sea sawdust (Trichodesmium erythraeum). It appears massively in surface, time of heat. It is a natural process. Pilot
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
Trichodesmium, also called sea sawdust (Trichodesmium erythraeum). It appears massively in surface, time of heat. It is a natural process. Pilot whale (Globicephala macorhynchus). Tenerife, Canary Islands.
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Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) hunting among sea lettuce (Ulva lactuca), Tyrrhenian Sea, Marechiaro, Italy
© Pasquale Vassallo / Biosphoto
© Pasquale Vassallo / Biosphoto
Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) hunting among sea lettuce (Ulva lactuca), Tyrrhenian Sea, Marechiaro, Italy
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Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) on a branch, Salamanca, Castilla
© Mario Cea Sanchez / Biosphoto
© Mario Cea Sanchez / Biosphoto
Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) on a branch, Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain
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Snapper behind Ulva kelp - Poor knights Island New Zealand
© Tobias Bernhard Raff / Biosphoto
© Tobias Bernhard Raff / Biosphoto
Snapper behind Ulva kelp - Poor knights Island New Zealand
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Kelp forest Giant Kelp - San Benito Island Mexico ; San Benito Island
© Reinhard Dirscherl / Biosphoto
© Reinhard Dirscherl / Biosphoto
Kelp forest Giant Kelp - San Benito Island Mexico ; San Benito Island
© Tobias Bernhard Raff / Biosphoto
Eastern red scorpionfish in ulva kelp - New Zealand
© Brandon Cole / Biosphoto
Red Sea Urchins and Purple Sea Urchins eating Giant Kelp
© Brandon Cole / Biosphoto
Sea star on green algae Fiji
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Marine Iguana feeding on green algae underwater Galapagos ; World's only lizard which feeds in the ocean
© Brandon Cole / Biosphoto
© Brandon Cole / Biosphoto
Marine Iguana feeding on green algae underwater Galapagos ; World's only lizard which feeds in the ocean
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Bioluminescence in waves in the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia.
© Philip Hart / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
© Philip Hart / Stocktrek Images / Biosphoto
Bioluminescence in waves in the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia.
© Gerald Nowak / WaterFrame - Agence / Biosphoto
Weedy Sea Dragon, Tasmania, Australia
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Halimada crab (Huenia heraldica) mimicking Halimeda sp. algae, Lembeh, Indonesia
© Fabien Michenet / Biosphoto
© Fabien Michenet / Biosphoto
Halimada crab (Huenia heraldica) mimicking Halimeda sp. algae, Lembeh, Indonesia
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Sargassum fish (Histrio histrio) drifting off Tahiti, French Polynesia.
© Fabien Michenet / Biosphoto
© Fabien Michenet / Biosphoto
Sargassum fish (Histrio histrio) drifting off Tahiti, French Polynesia.
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Rivularia (Rivularia bullata) on Barnacles, Cotes-d'Armor, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Rivularia (Rivularia bullata) on Barnacles, Cotes-d'Armor, France
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Rusavskia elegans (ex. Xanthoria elegans) on a tombstone in Champsaur (Hautes Alpes). Xanthoria elegans is a superb orange lichen, foliaceous,
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Rusavskia elegans (ex. Xanthoria elegans) on a tombstone in Champsaur (Hautes Alpes). Xanthoria elegans is a superb orange lichen, foliaceous, saxicolous (living on rocks) and nitrophilous. Psychrophilic, it can photosynthesize down to -24°C and continue to grow at -10°C1. Common in the mountains and widely distributed worldwide. France
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Complex of saxicolous lichens on quartzites in Savoy. Lecidea fuscoatra var. grisella ? (brown crustacean) + Rhizocarpon geographicum (yellow
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Complex of saxicolous lichens on quartzites in Savoy. Lecidea fuscoatra var. grisella ? (brown crustacean) + Rhizocarpon geographicum (yellow crustacean) etc. Grande Sassière Nature Reserve, Savoie, France
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Complex of saxicolous lichens on quartzites in Savoy. Brodoa atrofusca (gray foliaceous) + Rhizocarpon geographicum (yellow crustacean) Lecidea spp.,
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Complex of saxicolous lichens on quartzites in Savoy. Brodoa atrofusca (gray foliaceous) + Rhizocarpon geographicum (yellow crustacean) Lecidea spp., Aspicilia spp. etc. - Grande Sassière Nature Reserve, Savoie, France
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Terricolous lichen of the genus Cladonia in the Luberon. Cladonia (foliacea ?), France
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Terricolous lichen of the genus Cladonia in the Luberon. Cladonia (foliacea ?), France
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Male Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and family of moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) swimming on a eutrophic pond, Loire-Atlantique, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Male Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and family of moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) swimming on a eutrophic pond, Loire-Atlantique, France
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Stonewort (Chara contraria) in Lake Bethmale, Ariège, Occitanie, France
© Mathieu Foulquié / Biosphoto
© Mathieu Foulquié / Biosphoto
Stonewort (Chara contraria) in Lake Bethmale, Ariège, Occitanie, France
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Golden Cystoseira (Gongolaria barbata), Etang de Thau, Occitanie, France
© Mathieu Foulquié / Biosphoto
© Mathieu Foulquié / Biosphoto
Golden Cystoseira (Gongolaria barbata), Etang de Thau, Occitanie, France
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Dry algae on paramoudras (sandstone ball) hollows. Jaizkibel
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Dry algae on paramoudras (sandstone ball) hollows. Jaizkibel coastal massif - Basque Country - Spain
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Graphics on rocks at low tide. Geological strata and shells form natural tableaux at low tide - Playa del Silencio on the Asturias coast in Spain
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Graphics on rocks at low tide. Geological strata and shells form natural tableaux at low tide - Playa del Silencio on the Asturias coast in Spain
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Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch formed at the end of the Mesozoic era, in the Cretaceous - flysch is formed by the accumulation of sediments following repeated submarine avalanches, due to earthquakes, and producing after compaction and crystallization very regular strata of sandstone and limestone, here straightened by the Pyrenean orogeny and cleared by erosion - Biscay- Basque Country - Spain
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Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch formed at the end of the Mesozoic era, in the Cretaceous - flysch is formed by the
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch formed at the end of the Mesozoic era, in the Cretaceous - flysch is formed by the accumulation of sediments following repeated submarine avalanches, due to earthquakes, and producing after compaction and crystallization very regular strata of sandstone and limestone, here straightened by the Pyrenean orogeny and cleared by erosion - Biscay- Basque Country - Spain
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Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch formed at the end of the Mesozoic era, in the Cretaceous - flysch is formed by the accumulation of sediments following repeated submarine avalanches, due to earthquakes, and producing after compaction and crystallization very regular strata of sandstone and limestone, here straightened by the Pyrenean orogeny and cleared by erosion - Biscay- Basque Country - Spain
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Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch formed at the end of the Mesozoic era, in the Cretaceous - flysch is formed by the accumulation of sediments following repeated submarine avalanches, due to earthquakes, and producing after compaction and crystallization very regular strata of sandstone and limestone, here straightened by the Pyrenean orogeny and cleared by erosion - Biscay- Basque Country - Spain
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Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch formed at the end of the Mesozoic era, in the Cretaceous - flysch is formed by the
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Ripples in the Barrika flysch on the Spanish Basque coast. Flysch formed at the end of the Mesozoic era, in the Cretaceous - flysch is formed by the accumulation of sediments following repeated submarine avalanches, due to earthquakes, and producing after compaction and crystallization very regular strata of sandstone and limestone, here straightened by the Pyrenean orogeny and cleared by erosion - Biscay- Basque Country - Spain
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Characea pond in the Bardenas Reales Natural Park. A vast
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Characea pond in the Bardenas Reales Natural Park. A vast semi-desert where erosion has carved impressive rock formations and arid, windswept, sun-scorched badlands out of almost horizontal strata of clayey marl. Its distinctive steppe vegetation has earned it UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve status. Navarre - Spain
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Seaweed (Caulerpa taxifolia) Ventimiglia, Italy, Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean
© Franco Banfi / Biosphoto
© Franco Banfi / Biosphoto
Seaweed (Caulerpa taxifolia) Ventimiglia, Italy, Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean
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Flat Periwinkle (Littorina obtusata) on Bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus), Cotes-d'Armor, France
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
© Marie Aymerez / Biosphoto
Flat Periwinkle (Littorina obtusata) on Bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus), Cotes-d'Armor, France
© Mathieu Foulquié / Biosphoto
Maerl bottom off Ile de Ré, Atlantic Ocean, France
© Mathieu Foulquié / Biosphoto
Maerl bed off Ile de Ré, Charentes maritimes, France
© Mathieu Foulquié / Biosphoto
Green algae off Ile de Ré, Charentes Maritimes, France
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Podetions of lichens of the genus Cladonia in Haute Savoie. Lichen Cladonia (chlorophaea ? ) The podetion is the vertical secondary thallus of
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Podetions of lichens of the genus Cladonia in Haute Savoie. Lichen Cladonia (chlorophaea ? ) The podetion is the vertical secondary thallus of lichens of the genus Cladonia, bearing the apothecia, the reproductive organ. France
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Filamentous algae in spring water. Water probably enriched with
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Filamentous algae in spring water. Water probably enriched with nitrates, France
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Crustacean lichens of the genus Rhizocarpon (geographicum) on quartzite. Vanoise National Park, Savoie, France
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
© Jean-Philippe Delobelle / Biosphoto
Crustacean lichens of the genus Rhizocarpon (geographicum) on quartzite. Vanoise National Park, Savoie, France
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Tractor tire at the bottom of the Cher river, city of Seigy, Loir et Cher, France
© Bruno Guénard / Biosphoto
© Bruno Guénard / Biosphoto
Tractor tire at the bottom of the Cher river, city of Seigy, Loir et Cher, France
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Antarctic Shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis, also called imperial cormorant, king cormorant, imperial shag, blue-eyed shag,
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
Antarctic Shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis, also called imperial cormorant, king cormorant, imperial shag, blue-eyed shag, antarctic cormorant) pair on nest during early spring,taxonomy is under discussion. Pygoscwlis papua in the background. Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Port Lockroy
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Antarctic Shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis, also called imperial cormorant, king cormorant, imperial shag, blue-eyed shag,
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
Antarctic Shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis, also called imperial cormorant, king cormorant, imperial shag, blue-eyed shag, antarctic cormorant) pair on nest during early spring,taxonomy is under discussion. Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Port Lockroy
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Antarctic Shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis, also called imperial cormorant, king cormorant, imperial shag, blue-eyed shag,
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
Antarctic Shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis, also called imperial cormorant, king cormorant, imperial shag, blue-eyed shag, antarctic cormorant) pair on nest during early spring,taxonomy is under discussion. Pygoscwlis papua in the background. Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Port Lockroy
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Antarctic Shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis, also called imperial
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
Antarctic Shag (Leucocarbo bransfieldensis, also called imperial cormorant, king cormorant, imperial shag, blue-eyed shag, antarctic cormorant) pair on nest during early spring,taxonomy is under discussion. Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Port Lockroy
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American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) on bank, Tarcoles, Costa Rica.
© Vincent Premel / Biosphoto
© Vincent Premel / Biosphoto
American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) on bank, Tarcoles, Costa Rica.
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American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in water, Tarcoles, Costa Rica.
© Vincent Premel / Biosphoto
© Vincent Premel / Biosphoto
American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in water, Tarcoles, Costa Rica.
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Green algae in the Drome river near the mouth caused by a water stress situation despite a rainy spring, river with a low flow due to the general
© Antoine Boureau / Biosphoto
© Antoine Boureau / Biosphoto
Green algae in the Drome river near the mouth caused by a water stress situation despite a rainy spring, river with a low flow due to the general drought in the region very affected by climate change in Loriol sur Drome, France.
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Undulate ray (Raja undulata) resting on a seaweed background - Oleron Island - Atlantic ocean - france
© Bruno Guénard / Biosphoto
© Bruno Guénard / Biosphoto
Undulate ray (Raja undulata) resting on a seaweed background - Oleron Island - Atlantic ocean - france
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Undulate ray (Raja undulata) resting on a seaweed background - Oleron Island - Atlantic ocean - france
© Bruno Guénard / Biosphoto
© Bruno Guénard / Biosphoto
Undulate ray (Raja undulata) resting on a seaweed background - Oleron Island - Atlantic ocean - france
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Intertidal zone are accumulation of algae. It is a natural process. At some times of the year they can appear stranded in large numbers on beaches
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
Intertidal zone are accumulation of algae. It is a natural process. At some times of the year they can appear stranded in large numbers on beaches exposed to the current and/or wind. Tenerife, Canary Islands.