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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).
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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).
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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).
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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).
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles). Found in wetlands of northern and eastern Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles). Found in wetlands of northern and eastern Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Polluting gas emissions released into the atmosphere from industrial chimneys. North Queensland, Australia
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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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Household rubbish, senselessly dumped in State Forest in the Orara Valley, near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© David Fleetham / OceanwideImages.com |
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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
© Andy Murch / OceanwideImages.com |
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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
© Andy Murch / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus), amongst sea algas. Also known as Porcupinefish or Pufferfish. Often sighted on sheltered coastal reefs. Photo was taken in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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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.
© Gary Bell / OceanwideImages.com |
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Globefish (Diodon nichthemerus), amongst kelp. 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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