A whale shark swims through the open ocean in the Galapagos Islands. The whale shark is the largest shark on Earth, but is harmless eating plankton and small fish.
Galapagos shark swims over a reef in the Galapagos Islands, with schooling fish in the distance.
Scalloped hammerhead shark swims over a reef in the Galapagos Islands. The hammerheads eyes and other sensor organs are placed far apart on its wide head to give the shark greater ability to sense the location of prey.
Galapagos sea lion pup, Punta Espinosa.
Bigeye trevally jacks, motion blur, schooling.
Galapagos penguin, underwater, swimming. Bartolome Island.
Magnificent frigatebird, adult male on nest, with throat pouch inflated, a courtship display to attract females.
Hammerhead sharks swim in a school underwater at Wolf Island in the Galapagos archipelago. The hammerheads eyes and other sensor organs are placed far apart on its wide head to give the shark greater ability to sense the location of prey.
Magnificent frigatebird, adult female on nest.
Hammerhead sharks, schooling over sand, Darwin Island, Galapagos.
Nazca booby in flight.
Galapagos sea lion playing with puffer fish.
Darwin's Arch, a dramatic 50-foot tall natural lava arch, rises above the ocean a short distance offshore of Darwin Island. On June 10, 2021, Darwin's Arch broke and fell into the ocean, leaving behind two partial pillars.
Marine iguana, underwater, forages for green algae that grows on the lava reef.
Galapagos shark.
Galapagos sea lion on volcanic rocks, sunset.
Galapagos fur seal, Darwin Island.
Whale shark.
Galapagos sea lion playing with puffer fish.
Galapagos sea lion.
Coral hawkfish.
Stone scorpionfish.
Blue-footed booby, courtship display.
Sally Lightfoot crab.
Galapagos penguin at sunset.
Hammerhead sharks, schooling.
Schooling fish, Albany.
Magnificent frigatebird (note blue eye ring), juvenile.
Magnificent frigatebird, adult male on nest, with raised wings and throat pouch inflated in a courtship display to attract females.
Galapagos fur seal, Darwin Island.
Galapagos sea lion, adult male.
Galapagos sea lion blows a bubble.
Galapagos sea lion, Punta Espinosa.
Brown pelican.
Greater flamingo.
Scalloped hammerhead shark.
Orange cup coral.
Flightless cormorant. In the absence of predators and thus not needing to fly, the flightless cormorants wings have degenerated to the point that it has lost the ability to fly, however it can swim superbly and is a capable underwater hunter. Punta Albemarle.
Scalloped hammerhead shark, black and white / grainy.
Bigeye trevally jacks, schooling.
Black coral. The fan is five feet in diameter and the color of the live coral is more yellow-green than black.
Black coral.
Brown pelican.
Darwin Island, with Darwins Arch on the right. Darwin Island is the northernmost of the Galapagos Islands and is home to enormous numbers of seabirds.
Wolf Island, with a liveaboard tour boat below sheer seacliffs, is the largest of the islands in the distant northern island group of the Galapagos archipelago, is home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds. Vast schools of sharks and fish inhabit the waters surrounding Wolf Island.
Booby in flight, motion blur.
Brown pelican, waves, rocks and cliffs, sunset.
Scalloped hammerhead shark, black and white / grainy.
Spotted eagle ray.
Unidentified snapper.
Sea Turtle, underwater, black and white.
Yellowtail surgeonfish.
Bottlenose dolphin.
Striped sea chub, schooling.
Pacific creolefish form immense schools and are a source of food for predatory fishes.
A SCUBA diver is immersed in an enormous school of Pacific creolefish, black and white / grainy.
Galapagos tortoise, Santa Cruz Island species, highlands of Santa Cruz island.
Gordon Rocks, a spectacular dive site near South Plaza Island.
Galapagos sea lion, Sullivan Bay.
Galapagos land iguana.
Bartolome.
Galapagos sea lion on sandy beach, sunset.
Galapagos sea lion pup.
Galapagos penguin, perched on volcanic rocks. Galapagos penguins are the northernmost species of penguin. Punta Albemarle.
Nazca booby.
Mangrove shoreline. Mangroves have vertical branches, pheumatophores, that serve to filter out salt and provide fresh water to the leaves of the plant. Many juvenile fishes and young marine animals reside in the root systems of the mangroves. Punta Albemarle.
Mangrove shoreline. Mangroves have vertical branches, pheumatophores, that serve to filter out salt and provide fresh water to the leaves of the plant. Many juvenile fishes and young marine animals reside in the root systems of the mangroves. Punta Albemarle.
Seacliffs, home of many seabirds.
An inflatable boat full of adventurous divers heads towards Roca Redonda (round rock), a lonely island formed from volcanic forces, in the western part of the Galapagos archipelago.
Boat Lammer Law lies at anchor near Isabella Island.
Small plants have adapted to the arid condition in the Galapagos. Bartolome Island.
Blue-footed booby chick.
Blue-footed booby, Punta Albemarle.
Scalloped hammerhead shark, black and white / grainy.
Hammerhead sharks, schooling, black and white / grainy.
Hammerhead sharks, schooling, black and white / grainy.
Yellowtail surgeonfish, motion blur.
Schooling fish, black and white / grainy.
Turtle.
Urchins on rock, black and white / grainy.
Bubbles rise from the depths of the ocean. Black and white / grainy.
Encrusting sponges cover the lava reef.
Galapagos tortoise, Santa Cruz Island species, highlands of Santa Cruz island.