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Heavy clouds over a rocky desert landscape.

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Kenny Broad free dives into the bizarre and eerie looking Devil’s Ear.

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Surf spreads a foamy swath of water over a black beach.

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A child on a swing in the world’s northernmost permanent settlement.

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Epauletted bats at dusk.

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A person on horseback on the beach amidst a flock of birds.

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A ride called the "Yo Yo" at the Cullman County Fair.

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A humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, leaps from the water near a boat.

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A white arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) steals across a wintry landscape.

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Aerial of a massive glacier in Wrangell Saint Elias National Park.

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Well camouflaged emperor shrimp and commensal crab on a sea cucumber.

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A portrait of a young harp seal sitting in an icy landscape.

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A close view of a molten lava flow.

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Aerial of a massive glacier in Wrangell Saint Elias National Park.

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A colorfully striped insect, balances on a leaf.

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A South American fer-de-lance snake (Bothrops jararaca) is coiled up on the ground.

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The boys of Barry spend summer days seaside, where rocks become diving platforms at high tide. Here one boy is captured mid-air careening into the sea below.

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Yawning for the camera. The red fox is usually recognized by its reddish coat, its white-tipped tail, and black stockings, although the species does have many color variations.

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California’s Lost Coast, Humboldt County.

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An audience awaits the start of a play at the outdoor theater.

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Silhouettes of a group of African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) resting near a large tree in the late afternoon.

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This perfectly-posed Indian tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) is probably one of Sita’s eighteen-month-old cubs.

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The majority of the remaining population of West Indian manatees winter in the Florida springs, drawn by the constant seventy-two degree waters.

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Acropolis, Athens, Greece.

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A great hammerhead shark swimming near the ocean’s surface.

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A car speeds past a rock formation along the side of a road.

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