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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). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Photo taken in Orara River, west of Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Platypus are monotremes (egg laying mammals).
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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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Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles). Found in wetlands of northern and eastern Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.
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Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles). Found in wetlands of northern and eastern Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) swimming underwater. North Pole region. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) swimming underwater. North Pole region. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) swimming underwater. North Pole region. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) swimming underwater. North Pole region. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), trying to stay cool in the summer sun near Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), trying to stay cool in the summer sun near Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), eating kelp during the summer when other food is scarce. Photo taken in Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), eating kelp during the summer when other food is scarce. Photo taken in Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), eating kelp during the summer when other food is scarce. Photo taken in Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), trying to stay cool in the summer sun near Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), trying to stay cool in the summer sun near Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), trying to stay cool in the summer sun near Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), trying to stay cool in the summer sun near Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), trying to stay cool in the summer sun near Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus), sniffing the air while trying to stay cool in the summer sun near Churchill, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada, Canadian Arctic. Classified Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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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Commercial passenger jet cruising at 30,000 plus feet in crystal clear cold air, over outback 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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