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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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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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© Gabriel Barathieu / Biosphoto

Under the Hole, the door to the mesophotic zone, under an arch in natural light at a depth of 60 metres. Mayotte

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© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto

Reproduction. Common stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca) mating. Fish from 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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© Gabriel Barathieu / Biosphoto

Tube anemone (Cerianthidae sp) catch macro plancton, Mayotte

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© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto

White spotted octopus (Octopus macropus) above bottom. Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands.

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Release of gametes from barrel sponges (Xestospongia testudinaria), Mayotte

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Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) and Humpback red snapper (Lutjanus gibbus), Tahiti, French polynesia

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Happy fFsh, Bluestriped fangblenny (Plagiotremus rhinorhynchos) sticking her head out of her hole with a joyful smile, Mayotte

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Imperial shrimp (Periclimenes imperator) on Blue sea cucumber (Actinopyga caerulea), in front of Siladen Island, Bunaken National Park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Corals potato in the S-shaped channel during a high low tide, Mayotte

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Pink whipray (Pateobatis fai) on the surface at sunset in a lagoon, French Polynesia

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Snaketooth deepsea swallower (Kali macrodon), Tahiti, French Polynesia

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Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) feeding underwater, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Bahia Magdalena, Baja California, Mexico

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Sicklefin Lemon Shark, Negaprion acutidens. Aka sharptooth lemon shark or Indo-Pacific Lemon Shark. White Valley, Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia.

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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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© Mathieu Foulquié / Biosphoto

Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris), in Port-Cros National Park, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

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'Octopus Training', At the end of a session of free diving, I noticed a soccer ball, in the distance and on the surface. Intrigued I approached it, and then I noticed that below it was an octopus that was being pulled along by the current. I do not know what it was doing under the ball, but I think it is training for the next football World Cup! There was time for me to take a couple of shots before the octopus let go of the ball and dropped back to the seabed.

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Giant manta (Manta birostris) with a 6 meter wingspan over the Misool reef, Raja Ampat, Indonesia

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Lettuce coral in spinning, Raja Ampat, Indonesia

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Coral reef, Misool, Raja Ampat, Indonesia

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Reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) female, Raja Ampat, Indonesia

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Long pose of a Skunk clownfish (Amphiprion akallopisos) well protected in its anemone, Mayotte

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Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) swimming at full speed in the lagoon of Mayotte.

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Blue-eyed Translucent gorgonian shrimp (Manipontonia psamathe) in a white coral at a depth of 80 meters. We can also notice that she wears eggs. Mayotte

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Big Gulf grouper (Mycteroperca jordani) in front of a Shoal of Big-eye jacks (Caranx sexfasciatus), Cabo Pulmo Marine National Park, Baja California Sur, Mexico

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Life is abundant in the Sada pass of the Mayotte lagoon.

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Coral reef in the lagoon, Mayotte

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Smaragdia viridis, small mollusc associated with seagrass beds (Caulerpa prolifera). Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands, Tenerife.

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Red Indian fish, Pataecus fronto. Note big pectoral fins that look like 8 finger hands and help the fish to move and grab among the sponges and corals. It is a relatively rare species and we don't know much about it's biology. But it has been discovered that, like the snakes, it regularly moults. When it grows, or the skin is old, it changes it as if it were a used outfit, in one swoop, getting rid in the meantime of the parasites and the encrusting weeds. Australia. Composite image

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Slate Pencil Urchin (Heterocentrotus mammilatus) on green coral. South lagoon. New Caledonia.

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Central american alligator (Crocodylus acutus) under water, Jardines de la Reina National Park, Cuba

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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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Dramatic fight between an octopus and a moray eel. The moray makes a knot on itself that runs over the body and frees it from the tantacles of the octopus. Portugal

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White-spotted pufferfish, Torquigener albomaculosus. Male with characteristic circular nest in the sand on the foreground. Males never reuse a nest. The spectacular nest with 2 meters in diameter is excavated on the sand to attract the females with the impressive design. Amami Oshima Island. Japan Digital composite. Composite image

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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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Shoal of Yellowback Fusilier, Caesio teres, Christmas Island, Australia

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Spotted Eagle Rays (Aetobatus narinari), Tahiti, French Polynesia

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Left side wide view Spotted Eagle Ray (Aetobatus narinari), Tahiti, French Polynesia

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Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in a shoal of herrings- Andenes; Norway Highly commanded UPY 2017

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Lionfish (Pterois sp) in a sea cave, Indian Ocean, Maharani, La Reunion island

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Coral in the lagoon at sunset, Reunion

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Green turtle (Chelonia mydas), Indian Ocean, Reunion

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Octopus (Octopus sp) in the lagoon, Mayotte, Indian Ocean.

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Bull shark(Carcharhinus leucas) in front of the wreck of Mama Vina - Caribbean sea

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