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Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) on pack ice in the Ross Sea, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

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Killer whale (Orcinus orca) and Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) on pack ice in the Ross Sea, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

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White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) in flight, Flatanger, Norwegian Sea, Norway

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Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) and jellyfishes in floating wastes, Procida Island, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea

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Electric Crab (Achaeus spinosus) with transplanted anemones for defence and camouflage on Ascidian (Ascidiidae Family), night dive, Torpedo Alley dive site, Horseshoe Bay, Nusa Kode, south Rinca Island, Komodo National Park, Indonesia

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Dugong (Dugong dugon) feeding on a seagrass meadow (Halophila stipulacea). Marsa Alam, Egypt. Red Sea

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Pod of Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) swimming over shallow sandy lagoon. Marsa Alam, Egypt. Red Sea

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Juvenile Rockmover Wrasse (Novaculichthys taeniourus), Suanggi Island dive site, Banda Islands, Indonesia, Banda Sea

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Spawning Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia testudinaria), Suanggi Island dive site, Banda Islands, Indonesia, Banda Sea

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Chinese Sea Snake (Laticauda semifasciata) with sun in background, Red Cliff dive site, Manuk Island, Indonesia, Banda Sea

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Chinese Sea Snake (Laticauda semifasciata) swimming around coral, Snake Ridge dive site, Manuk Island, Maluku, Banda Sea, Indonesia

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Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) on ice floe in Port Lockroy at Wiencke-Island. Antarctica, February

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Red-lined Flabellina Nudibranch (Flabellina rubrolineata), Tanjung Uli dive site, night dive, Weda, Halmahera, North Maluku, Indonesia, Halmahera Sea

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Electric Crab (Achaeus spinosus) with transplanted anemones for defence and camouflaged on Ascidian (Ascidiidae Family), night dive, Torpedo Alley dive site, Horseshoe Bay, Nusa Kode, south Rinca Island, Komodo National Park, Indonesia

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Illustration of the risk of trampling of nests of the Ring-necked Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) on the seashore of the Normandy coast during heavy traffic, Europe

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Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus), feeding on a bait ball of sardines, Los Islotes, Espiritu Santo Island, La Paz Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean

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Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus), feeding on a bait ball of sardines, Los Islotes, Espiritu Santo Island, La Paz Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean

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Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus), feeding on a bait ball of sardines, Los Islotes, Espiritu Santo Island, La Paz Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean

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In a moment we’ve been surrounded and dazed by the curiosity of these California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) that seemed to have found us as playmates, while they were probably enjoying our blunder. They are used at the contact with the persons, because they are steadily studied and controlled by the researchers of the University of La Paz. Los Islotes, Espiritu Santo Island, La Paz Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean

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In a moment we’ve been surrounded and dazed by the curiosity of these California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) that seemed to have found us as playmates, while they were probably enjoying our blunder. They are used at the contact with the persons, because they are steadily studied and controlled by the researchers of the University of La Paz. Los Islotes, Espiritu Santo Island, La Paz Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean

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Munk's pygmy devil ray / Munk's mobula (Mobula munkiana) flying out of the water, Baja California, Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), Mexico, Pacific Ocean.

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Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) with fully open mouth. Vulnerable (IUCN). The sperm whale is the largest of the toothed whales. Sperm whales are known to dive as deep as 1,000 meters in search of squid to eat. Image has been shot in Dominica, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean. Photo taken under permit

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Brandt's cormorant feeds on small fish from the surface to sea floor, by pursuit diving using its feet for propulsion ; they have been observed foraging at depths of over 36.5 m. It is a marine bird of extraordinary skills.
 Species : Brandt's cormorant -- Phalacrocorax penicillatus Conservation status (IUCN) : Least concern Location : Los Islotes rockeries, Espiritu Santo archipelago, Sea of Cortez, east coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The area was declared part of a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1995


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An unbelievable large school of sardines, moving as one unit, opens while each individual tries to escape at the maw of grouper and dentex. The tiny sardines found themselves in a situation which limited their chances of survival, since they were locked up between the surface and the shallow bottom, with very few possibilities to escape the predators’ mouths. The large school was so big to darken the natural light coming through the surface in the shallow water and frantically moved apart under the attacks of the groupers and dentex, to reassemble shortly after. The school of fishes continually changed shapes, similarly to the flocks of starlings in the sky.
I remained hours in the shallow water, doing my best to take a representative picture, while avoiding to be part of the feast. Species : Sardines, Leopard grouper (Mycteroperca rosacea), Dentex
Conservation status : Least concerned Location: Los Islotes rockeries, Espiritu Santo archipelago, Sea of Cortez, Mexico The area was declared part of a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1995

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A free diver exercises dynamic apnoea below an iced platform, in the chilly salt water of the White Sea, at minus 2 degrees Celsius. Must be extremely prepared, brave and self-controlled to free-dive, holding the breath, in ambient without a fast and clear access to the surface.
Reaching the underwater world, is an adventure itself since a thick layer of ice bars the passages every night, due to very low temperatures, and every day one must cut ice holes (called mainas by locals) into the ice platform. Salted water needs very low temperature to freeze. Below the ice platform, the upper layer is a melt of fresh and salt water, allowing a surprising amount of life to thrive. 

Location: White Sea, northern Russia.


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Mobula ray is jumps out of the water. Mexico. Sea of Cortez. Cal.

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Blue starfish (Coscinasterias tenuispina). Clear example of regeneration, many stars can regenerate any part of their body, even from a single arm can form a complete individual. Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands, Tenerife.

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Spotted sea hare, (Aplysia dactylomela) a tropical Atlantic species considered alien in Mediterranean Sea where first seen in 2002 and likely self-established due to increasing temperatures. Puolo Bay, Marine Protected area Punta Campanella, Massa Lubrense, Penisola Sorrentina, Costa Amalfitana, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean

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California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) feeding on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, West Coast of Baja California Peninsula, Pacific Ocean, Mexico

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Granite arch of Port Blanc, emblem of the Côte Sauvage de Quiberon, Hercynian granite eroded by the sea, Brittany, France

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Couple of Sea Angel, Clione limacina, Arctic circle Dive Center, White Sea, Karelia, northern Russia

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Lemon Sharks, Negaprion brevirostris, at Fish Tales near Tiger Beach, Grand Bahama Bank, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean.

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Great Hammerhead Shark, Sphyrna mokarran. The largest species of hammerhead shark attaining lengths of upto 6m. South Bimini Island, Bahamas, Caribbean Sea.

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Clown anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in a sea anemone, Richelieu Rock, Surin Islands, Thailand, Andaman Sea

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Red lionfish (Pterois volitans) in front of a Sea Fan, Andaman Sea, Thailand

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Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) under the surface at dusk, Miseno, Napoli, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea

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School of fish under the surface at dusk, island Procida, La Corricella, Tyrrhenian Sea, Campania Italy

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Sub-adult sperm whale try to move away a calf to to mate with a female, (Physeter macrocephalus), Vulnerable (IUCN), The sperm whale is the largest of the toothed whales. Sperm whales are known to dive as deep as 1,000 meters in search of squid to eat. Image has been shot in Dominica, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean. Photo taken under permit n°RP 16-02/32 FIS-5.

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Pod of sperm whale, (Physeter macrocephalus), Vulnerable (IUCN), The sperm whale is the largest of the toothed whales. Sperm whales are known to dive as deep as 1,000 meters in search of squid to eat. Image has been shot in Dominica, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean. Photo taken under permit n°RP 16-02/32 FIS-5.

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California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) feeding on sardine's bait ball (Sardinops sagax), Magdalena Bay, West Coast of Baja California, Pacific Ocean, Mexico

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Velvet of the Eternity Glacier and seabirds, Greenland

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Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) eating a discarded condom floating in the sea, Miseno, Campania, Italy. Tyrrhenian Sea

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Jack Mackerel (Trachurus sp) juveniles using a Jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo) as a shelter from predators, Tyrrhenian Sea

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Pumpkin sea star (Astrosarkus sp.) attached to rock wall, 90 meters depth, indian Ocean, Mayotte. Possibly new species.

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Christmas Island Red Crab release eggs into ocean, Gecarcoidea natalis, Christmas Island, Australia

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Christmas Island Red Crab release eggs into ocean, Gecarcoidea natalis, Christmas Island, Australia

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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 whale (Globicephala macorhynchus). Tenerife, Canary Islands.

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Photo denunciation, garbage in the sea. No matter the place if not the consequences. Curiously, some waste becomes a refuge for some species. Grey triggerfish (Balistes capriscus).

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Skunk Clownfish (Amphiprion akallopisos) couple and Sea Anemone, Mayotte, Indian Ocean

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Common dolphin - Short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis). Group feeding on snipe fish (Macroramphosus scolopax). Tenerife, Canary Islands.