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Sand, water and light
Sand, water and light.
Location: Bahamas
Image ID: 05664  
Sunlight spreads across broad sand plains, trochoidal patterns
Sunlight spreads across broad sand plains, trochoidal patterns.
Location: Bahamas
Image ID: 05665  
Squid egg masses attached to sandy bottom, Loligo opalescens, La Jolla, California
Squid egg masses attached to sandy bottom.
Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 03113  
Mating squid and egg masses attached to sandy bottom, Loligo opalescens, La Jolla, California
Mating squid and egg masses attached to sandy bottom.
Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 03114  
Videographer films mating squid and egg masses attached to sandy bottom, Loligo opalescens, La Jolla, California
Videographer films mating squid and egg masses attached to sandy bottom.
Species: Common squid, Loligo opalescens
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 03115  
Sand, water and light
Sand, water and light.
Location: Bahamas
Image ID: 05656  
Sand, water and light
Sand, water and light.
Image ID: 05669  
Water, sand and light, Sea of Cortez, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico
Water, sand and light.
Location: Sea of Cortez, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 04765  
Sand ripples
Sand ripples.
Image ID: 05646  
Sand ripples
Sand ripples.
Image ID: 05647  
Sand, water and light
Sand, water and light.
Location: Bahamas
Image ID: 05660  
Sand, water and light
Sand, water and light.
Location: Bahamas
Image ID: 05661  
Sand, water and light
Sand, water and light.
Location: Bahamas
Image ID: 05663  
A starfish (sea star) on the sandy bottom, Pisaster giganteus, Santa Barbara Island
A starfish (sea star) on the sandy bottom.
Species: Giant sea star, Pisaster giganteus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Image ID: 10141  
Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet, Thalassia testudinum, Great Isaac Island
Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet.
Species: Turtle grass, Thalassia testudinum
Location: Great Isaac Island, Bahamas
Image ID: 10856  
Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet, Thalassia testudinum, Great Isaac Island
Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet.
Species: Turtle grass, Thalassia testudinum
Location: Great Isaac Island, Bahamas
Image ID: 10857  
Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet, Thalassia testudinum, Great Isaac Island
Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet.
Species: Turtle grass, Thalassia testudinum
Location: Great Isaac Island, Bahamas
Image ID: 10858  
French grunts over a sandy bottom and sea fans. Northern Bahamas
French grunts over a sandy bottom and sea fans. Northern Bahamas.
Location: Bahamas
Image ID: 10883  
Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet, Thalassia testudinum, Great Isaac Island
Turtle grass is the most common seagrass in the Caribbean, typically growing on sandy and coral rubble bottoms to a depth of 30 feet.
Species: Turtle grass, Thalassia testudinum
Location: Great Isaac Island, Bahamas
Image ID: 10890  
A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs, Enhydra lutris, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs.
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
Image ID: 21689  
A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs, Enhydra lutris, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs.
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
Image ID: 21694  
A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs, Enhydra lutris, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs.
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
Image ID: 21695  
A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs, Enhydra lutris, Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
A sea otter eats a clam that it has taken from the shallow sandy bottom of Elkhorn Slough. Because sea otters have such a high metabolic rate, they eat up to 30% of their body weight each day in the form of clams, mussels, urchins, crabs and abalone. Sea otters are the only known tool-using marine mammal, using a stone or old shell to open the shells of their prey as they float on their backs.
Species: Sea otter, Enhydra lutris
Location: Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Moss Landing, California
Image ID: 21724  
Drift kelp has washed ashore on a sandy California beach. Winter brings large surf and increased wave energy which often rips giant kelp from the ocean bottom, so that it floats down current, often washing ashore, Macrocystis pyrifera, Santa Barbara
Drift kelp has washed ashore on a sandy California beach. Winter brings large surf and increased wave energy which often rips giant kelp from the ocean bottom, so that it floats down current, often washing ashore.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Image ID: 14883  
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