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A Picture Appreciation of Life in Our Oceans


A bottlenose dolphin swims beneath a crashing wave.
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A bottlenose dolphin swims beneath waves close to the village of Doolin, in County Clare, Eire.
A close view of a colorful and spiky sea slug
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A detailed view of a Mediterranean sea slug close to La Herradura, Spain
A walrus rests on a shoreline, its tusks in the sand, as a wave crashes over it
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A sleeping walrus on the shore, Chukotka, Russia
A shark, photographed from an overhead perspective, swimming past flowing aquatic plants.
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A shark swims, photographed from an overhead perspective, in Western Australia.
A tern chick calls out on a sandy beach.
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A tern chick calls out on a sandy seaside.
A clownfish swims in a sea anemone.
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A clownfish swims in a sea anemone within the Philippines.
A sea turtle rests on a coral reef.
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A sea turtle rests on a coral reef close to the Philippines.
A large flock of seabirds takes flight.
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Waders flock collectively, looking for new feeding grounds throughout the incoming tide on the RSPB’s Snettisham Nature reserve on September 9, 2013, in Snettisham, England.
A spider crab walks on the seafloor.
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A spider crab walks on the seafloor off Eire’s Aran Islands.
An underwater view, looking down toward a pod of sperm whales that are resting in vertical positions.
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A bunch of sperm whales, seen within the sleeping section able known as candle, on November 16, 2011, close to Mauritius Island, within the Indian Ocean
Two sea otters swim together.
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Curious sea otters swim collectively close to Kodiak, Alaska.
A leafy sea dragon—similar to a seahorse, but covered in leaf-like appendages.
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A leafy sea dragon swims beneath the jetty at Fast Bay, in South Australia.
A small fish peeks out from a reef
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A blenny peeks out from a reef close to the island of Bonaire.
A close profile view of a seabird with black feathers and blue eyes.
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A Brandt’s cormorant stands alongside the La Jolla shoreline above the Pacific Ocean on Might 8, 2025, in San Diego, California.
A cormorant dives into a ball of baitfish.
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A cormorant dives right into a ball of baitfish, off of Southern California.
A mobula ray jumps out of the water.
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A mobula ray jumps out of the water.
An octopus, seen against a backdrop of black water.
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An octopus hunts at evening.
A puffin perches on a clifftop.
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A puffin perches on a clifftop on Skomer Island, in Wales.
An anemone flows in a current on the seafloor.
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An anemone flows within the present in Izmit Bay, in Kocaeli, Turkey, on August 10, 2024.
A polar bear jumps on drift ice.
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A polar bear jumps on drift ice within the Arctic Ocean alongside the Svalbard coast.
A colorful collection of coral, on the seafloor.
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A colourful assortment of coral, on the seafloor off Japan
A huge manta ray swims with several smaller fish.
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A large oceanic manta ray swims off San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo, Mexico.
Penguins leap out of the water with icebergs in the background.
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Penguins leap out of the water in Argentina.
A lanternfish, illuminated by a remotely-operated underwater vehicle in the background
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A lanternfish, illuminated by a remotely operated underwater car within the background
A crab rests in an anemone.
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A porcelain crab rests in an anemone close to Alam Batu, Bali, Indonesia.
A jellyfish swims.
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A mauve stinger jellyfish swims close to Cap de Creus, Costa Brava, Spain.
A humpback whale breaches.
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A humpback whale breaches in Uramba Bahía Málaga Nationwide Pure Park, off Colombia, on July 16, 2013.

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