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A manta ray leaping out of the ocean.

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Sunlight streams into the Blue Hole at Ichetucknee, hidden to all except scuba divers.

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An opium addict smokes opium on Chinese Lunar New Year.

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Street puddle.

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Sunlight and solar phenomena over a snowy landscape with evergreens.

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Matador and bull in motion, Arequipa, Peru.

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A computer-enhanced image of the bloodstained areas on the Shroud of Turin.

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A collared kingfisher perches and preens in the mangroves.

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Sky and canyon walls reflected in rain water pooled in a boulder.

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A wall of white marble circles the ruins of a Thracian tomb.

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View of lodgepole pines,Pinus murrayan, against a backdrop of fire.

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A south Australian walking stick (Extatasoma tiaratum) at the Cincinnati Zoo.

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The lagunas and pozas of Cuatro Cienegas contain one of the most di verse populations of endemic aquatic snails in North America.

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Somewhere below this vast water lies the remains of a 350-foot World War II Jap anese submarine, the I-52, sunk in 1944 by American aircraft.

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Dawn mist in the rain forest canopy.

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Close view of a wild durian fruit cut open. This durian with red flesh is mostly eaten by birds.

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Giant squirrel on tree limb.Giant squirrel (Ratufa affinis), frequently feeds on figs.

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A spacesuit on Johnson Space Center's lunar yard.

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Matanuska Glacier calving on northern side of Chugach Range.

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Uniquely dug wells after the rains.

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Salmon gather in a stream to spawn.

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A climber high in the Kunlun Mountains of the Chang Tang Reserve. The climber is part of a conservation mission to locate herds of Tibetan antelope, called chiru, and follow females on their annual migration to calving grounds in the remote Kunlun Mountains.

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A Wallaces flying frog glides through the air.Wallaces flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus).

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With angry eye and a cloud of ink, a jumbo squid flees from a diver. If camouflage fails, squid use ink as a backup defense--another in their bottomless bag of tricks.

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Rock climbers descending the rock formation Tricouni Nail Spire.

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View from behind of Blood Indians wearing tribal feather headdresses.

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