Moon over The Mount Soledad Cross, a landmark in La Jolla, California. The Mount Soledad Cross is a 29-foot-tall cross erected in 1954.
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 36694
Western Grebes rushing in a courtship display. Rushiing grebes run across the water 60 feet (20m) or further with their feet hitting the water as rapidly as 20 times per second. Lake Hodges, San Diego.
Species: Western grebe, Aechmophorus occidentalis
Image ID: 36890
Navajo sandstone forms the cliffs and walls of Zion National Park. The sandstone reaches a thickness of 2300 feet and consists of ancient cemented desert sand dunes. Horizontal lines, commonly called crossbedding, represent layers of wind-blown sand that built up into sand dunes. These dunes were then buried, and the sand grains glued together by calcite and iron oxide to form sandstone.
Location: Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 12519
Sol Duc Falls. Sol Duc Falls is one of the largest and most beautiful waterfalls in Olympic National Park, seen here from a bridge that crosses the canyon just below the falls. Surrounding the falls is an old-growth forest of hemlocks and douglas firs, some of which are three hundred years in age.
Location: Sol Duc Springs, Olympic National Park, Washington
Image ID: 13748
San Diego downtown waterfront skyline, viewed across San Diego Bay from Coronado Island.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 14619
San Diego downtown waterfront skyline, viewed across San Diego Bay from Coronado Island.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 14620
Epaulette shark. The epaulette shark is primarily nocturnal, hunting for crabs, worms and invertebrates by crawling across the bottom on its overlarge fins.
Species: Epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium ocellatum
Image ID: 14958
Cross fox, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California. The cross fox is a color variation of the red fox.
Species: Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
Image ID: 15958
Cross fox, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California. The cross fox is a color variation of the red fox.
Species: Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
Image ID: 15959
Cross fox, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California. The cross fox is a color variation of the red fox.
Species: Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
Image ID: 15961
Cross fox, Sierra Nevada foothills, Mariposa, California. The cross fox is a color variation of the red fox.
Species: Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
Image ID: 15962
A large, old brown bear (grizzly bear) wades across Brooks River. Coastal and near-coastal brown bears in Alaska can live to 25 years of age, weigh up to 1400 lbs and stand over 9 feet tall.
Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos
Location: Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska
Image ID: 17038