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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) resting on submerged log. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals). The male Platypus has venomous spurs located on the inside their hind legs capable of injuring humans and killing animals. Australia
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) entering stream from burrow entrance. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals). The male Platypus has venomous spurs located on the inside of their hind legs. Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), in rainforest stream. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals). Male Platypus has venomous spurs located on inside of their hind legs capable of injuring humans and killing animals. Tasmania, Australia.
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), in rainforest stream. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals). Male Platypus has venomous spurs located on inside of their hind legs capable of injuring humans and killing animals. Tasmania, Australia.
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), in rainforest stream. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals). Male Platypus has venomous spurs located on inside of their hind legs capable of injuring humans and killing animals. Tasmania, Australia.
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), in rainforest stream. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals). Male Platypus has venomous spurs located on inside of their hind legs capable of injuring humans and killing animals. Tasmania, Australia.
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), in rainforest stream. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals). Male Platypus has venomous spurs located on inside of their hind legs capable of injuring humans and killing animals. Tasmania, Australia.
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Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva). Migrative bird that breeds in Arctic from northern Asia to Alaska, migrating to Australia and feeds at estuaries, mud-flats, marshes, beaches and off-shore islands. Photo Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva). Migrative bird that breeds in Arctic from northern Asia to Alaska, migrating to Australia and feeds at estuaries, mud-flats, marshes, beaches and off-shore islands. Photo Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles). Also known as Spur-winged Plover and Masked Plover. Found throughtout Northern and Eastern Australia, also New Zealand and New Guinea. Photo taken at Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.
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Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles). Also known as Spur-winged Plover and Masked Plover. Found throughtout Northern and Eastern Australia, also New Zealand and New Guinea. Photo taken at Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.
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Polluting gas emissions released into the atmosphere from industrial chimneys. North Queensland, Australia
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Polluting gas emissions released into the atmosphere from industrial chimney. Northern New South Wales, Australia.
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Polluting gas emissions released into the atmosphere from industrial chimney. Northern New South Wales, Australia.
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Polluting gas emissions released into the atmosphere from industrial chimney. Northern New South Wales, Australia.
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Household rubbish, senselessly dumped in State Forest in the Orara Valley, near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
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Scrubs and trees filled with plastic bags, down wind from a landfill site on the island of Maui, Hawaii. A state wide ban on plastic bags went into effect in January 2011. Hawaii, USA.
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Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus). Also known as Mackeral Shark. Found in North and South Atlantic, South Pacific and southern Indian Oceans - including southern Australia. Photo taken in Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada
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Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus). Also known as Mackeral Shark. Found in North and South Atlantic, South Pacific and southern Indian Oceans - including southern Australia. Photo taken in Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada
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Delail of the ragged jaw of a dead Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus). Also known as Mackeral Shark. This specimen became wrapped up in a fishing net in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
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Detail of the eye of a Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus). During feeding the Porbeagle's eye rolls back in its socket revealing a toughened pad that limits injury. Bay of Fundy, Canada
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Delail of the ragged jaw of a Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus). Bay of Fundy, Canada
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Detail of the Ampullae of Lorenzini of a Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus) - a series of jelly filled sacks around the snout that sense weak electric signals in the sharks surroundings. Used to locate prey. Bay of Fundy, Canada
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Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus) - with its head protruding from surface. Note the skin membrane rolled over the eye, used to protect the eye. Bay of Fundy, Canada.
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A team of researchers use a hammock to hoist a Porbeagle Shark, (Lamna nasus), onto the deck of a research vessel in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
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Delail of the ragged jaw of a dead Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus). This specimen became wrapped up in a fishing net in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
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A team of researchers led by Dr Steve Turnbull from the University of New Brunswick use a hammock to hoist a Porbeagle Shark, (Lamna nasus), onto the deck of a research vessel in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
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A team of researchers led by Dr Steve Turnbull from the University of New Brunswick use a hammock to hoist a Porbeagle Shark, (Lamna nasus), onto the deck of a research vessel in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
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Researchers insert an identification tag below the dorsal fin of a Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus). Bay of Fundy, Canada
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Researchers insert an identification tag below the dorsal fin of a Porbeagle Shark (Lamna nasus). Bay of Fundy, Canada
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus), amongst colourful sea sponges. Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus), amongst colourful sea sponges. Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus), amongst colourful sea sponges. Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus). Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus), captured in a fish trap. Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
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