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Surviving Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) with extreme scarring on upper surface. Wound most likely caused by ship propeller. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) and Scuba Diver. Indo-Pacific. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Surviving Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) with extreme scarring on upper surface. Wound most likely caused by ship propeller. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) and Snorkel Diver. Indo-Pacific. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) with schooling Herring around head and mouth. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) with schooling Trevally around head and mouth. Ningaloo Reef Western Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) and Scuba Diver. Indo-Pacific. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Diver and Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Image was taken in 1988 when little was known about whale sharks. Touching whale sharks is now considered inappropriate behavior. Whale Sharks are found in tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) with mouth open in feeding position. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) showing close detail of eye and spiracle. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) and Scuba Diver. Indo-Pacific. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) showing close detail of male reproductive claspers. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Snorkel diver observing Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) with Pilot Fish around mouth. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) with Pilot Fish around mouth. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) silhouetted. Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, Australia. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) and Snorkel Diver. Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Indo-Pacific. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Bob Halstead / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Christmas Island, situated in the Indian Ocean, Australia
© Justin Gilligan / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Donsol, Philippines. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Snorkel diver observing a Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Snorkel Divers Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus). Found throughout the world in all tropical and warm-temperate seas. Photo taken at Ningaloo Reef, WA, Australia. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
© Hayley Versace / OceanwideImages.com |
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Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus), male. Found in rainforests, wet eucalypt forests, heaths and dense regeneration forests throughout eastern Australia. Photo talen at Lamington Nat. Park. Queensland.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus), male. Found in rainforests, wet eucalypt forests, heaths and dense regeneration forests throughout eastern Australia. Photo talen at Lamington Nat. Park. Queensland.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus), male. Found in rainforests, wet eucalypt forests, heaths and dense regeneration forests throughout eastern Australia. Photo talen at Lamington Nat. Park. Queensland.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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White Marlin (Kajikia albidus). This species is considered rare and usually found in deep blue water over 100m deep. Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
© John Ashley / OceanwideImages.com |
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White Marlin (Kajikia albidus). This species is considered rare and usually found in deep blue water over 100m deep. Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
© John Ashley / OceanwideImages.com |
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White Marlin (Kajikia albidus). This species is considered rare and usually found in deep blue water over 100m deep. Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
© John Ashley / OceanwideImages.com |
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White Marlin (Kajikia albidus). This species is considered rare and usually found in deep blue water over 100m deep. Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
© John Ashley / OceanwideImages.com |
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White Marlin (Kajikia albidus). This species is considered rare and usually found in deep blue water over 100m deep. Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
© John Ashley / OceanwideImages.com |
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White-tailed Spider (Lampona cylindrata). Eastern Australia. A common perception is that white tail spider bites can be associated with long term skin infections, and in rarer cases progression to necrosis. No formal studies have found evidence for this.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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White-tailed Spider (Lampona cylindrata). Eastern Australia. A common perception is that white tail spider bites can be associated with long term skin infections, and in rarer cases progression to necrosis. No formal studies have found evidence for this.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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White-tailed Spider (Lampona cylindrata). Eastern Australia. A common perception is that white tail spider bites can be associated with long term skin infections, and in rarer cases progression to necrosis. No formal studies have found evidence for this.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whitetip Reef Sharks (Triaenodon obesus). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Whitetip Reef Sharks (Triaenodon obesus). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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