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Blackish Blind Snake (Ramphotyphlops nigrescens) - a pair coiled together. Found throughout eastern Australia, from southern Queensland to Victoria, usually under rocks and logs in woodlands and rock outcrops. Non venomous. Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
Image ID: 24T6659-08D
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Historic Brass Monkey Hotel, Perth City. Perth, Western Australia.
Image ID: 24T6170-49D
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Surgeonfish cleaning algae from the shell of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas). Hawaii, USA. Listed on the IUCN Red list as Endangered species.
Image ID: 70M2266-14
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Spotted Stingaree (Urolophus gigas). Also known as Sinclairs Stingaree. Southern Australia
Image ID: 40M2700-10
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Spotted Wobbegong Shark (Orectolobus maculatus) - surrounded by schooling Slender Cardinalfish (Rhabdamia gracilis). Solitary Islands, New South Wales, Australia
Image ID: 24M2678-09D
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Underside of a juvenile Thornback Ray (Raja clavata). Also known as Thornback Skate. Found in Europe, Atlantic coast of Africa and South Africa. Photo taken Scotland, UK.
Image ID: 70M2765-02
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Red Rocks Beach, near Cowes, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
Image ID: 24M2430-33D
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Hydroid (Ralpharia magnifica) - colony. Western Port Bay, Victoria, Australia
Image ID: 24M1225-04
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White's Seahorse (Hippocampus whitei) - female transferring eggs into males brood pouch. Central New South Wales, Australia. Sequence - C6.
Image ID: 40M1166-19
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Crashing wave. Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
Image ID: 24M2470-04D
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Colourful tropical reef scene, showing a Moorish Idol and schooling Orange Fairy Basslets (Pseudanthias cf cheirospilos), feeding on plankton drifting on reef with crinoid feather stars. Reef scene throughout Indo Pacific, including Great Barrier Reef.
Image ID: 24M2020-04D
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Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf underwater. Found throughout the world's oceans in both tropical & polar areas, depending on the season. Photo taken Hawaii. Classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
Image ID: 70M1430-27
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Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus), in flight. This large water bird is found throughout Australia and New Guinea. Also in Fiji and parts of Indonesia and New Zealand. Central New South Wales coast, Australia.
Image ID: 24T5232-51D
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Black Noddy (Anous minutus) sunbaking with wings out-stretched in order to free themselves of bird lice and ticks. Also known as White-capped Noddy. Found throughout Australia, widespread in Pacific Ocean. Photo Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Image ID: 24T5286-08D
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Paralarval Octopus (possibly Wunderpus or a member of the genus Abdopus), swimming. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Photo was taken off Anilao, Philippines. Within the Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 24M1634-09D
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Burrowing Spider (Xamiatus kia), female. A member of the Nemesiidae family. Similar in appearance to Funnel-web Spider. Very little is known of this spider's natural history, including venom toxicity. Photo taken Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
Image ID: 24T5854-04D
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Nesting female Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) depositing eggs during annual breeding season. Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Found in tropical and warm temperate seas worldwide. Endangered species on the IUCN Red list.
Image ID: 24M2255-35
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Female Snorkel Diver / Snorkeler exploring Cabbage Coral (Turbinaria reniformis) reef. Also known as Scroll Coral. Indo- Pacific
Image ID: 24M0833-23
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Southern Pot-belly Seahorse (Hippocampus bleekeri). Also known as Big-belly Seahorse. Found on soft-bottom habitats in southern Australia. Photo taken in Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Vic, Australia.
Image ID: 24M1166-23D
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Collared Carpet Shark (Parascyllium collare). Also known as Collared Catshark. New South Wales, Australia
Image ID: 40M2629-03
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Green Python (Morelia viridis). Rainforests of North Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea. Non-venomous snake.
Image ID: 24T6622-08
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Farmland. Victoria Valley, central Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia.
Image ID: 24T5315-75D
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Southern Pot-belly Seahorse (Hippocampus bleekeri), several males with brood pouches expanded chasing gravid female. Found on a variety of soft-bottom habitats in southern Australia from Lakes Entrance to Great Australian Bight and around Tasmania.
Image ID: 40M1166-10
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Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) - underwater. Found throughout the world's oceans in both tropical and polar areas, depending on the season. Photo taken in Tonga. Classified as Vulnerable on the 2000 IUCN Red List.
Image ID: 74M1430-39
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Porcelain Crab (Porcellanella picta), resting between the blades of the Seapen (Pteroeides sp.). Photo taken off Komodo, Indonesia. Within the Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 70M0444-01
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The Grotto. A limestone cave near the coast on Christmas Island, which opens out into the sea. Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia.
Image ID: 24T6020-20D
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Many-spotted Sweeetlips (Plectorhinchus chaetodontoides) - sub-adult. This species goes through a radical color change as it matures from a juvenile to an adult. Found throughout S.E. Asia and Indo-W. Pacific, including Great Barrier Reef.
Image ID: 45M1040-01
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Scuba Diver observing a Leopard Shark (Stegastoma fasciatum). Also known as Zebra Shark. Photo taken on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
Image ID: 24M2662-02
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Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus), formerly known as Ring-tailed Rock-wallaby. Found in rock outcroppings in western NSW, eastern SA and isolated portions of Qld, Australia. Near Threatened species.
Image ID: 24T5086-16D
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Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching on surface. Hawaii, USA. Found throughout the world's oceans in both tropical and polar areas, depending on the season. Classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
Image ID: 70M1439-03
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Hard Coral, possibly (Pavona clavus). Photo was taken at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. Within the Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 24M0211-78D
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Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching whilst predating on the surface. Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa. Protected species.
Image ID: 38M2651-36
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Leafy Seadragon (Phycodurus eques). Found from Lancelin, WA, to Wilsons Promontory, Vic, but mostly sighted in SA waters and southern WA waters. Photo taken at York Peninsula, South Australia. Endemic to Australia.
Image ID: 24M1155-56D
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Black Marlin (Makaira indica) breaching on surface after taking a bait. Also known as Billfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
Image ID: 33M1038-47
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Idyllic tropical island setting, comprising coconut palm fringed island surrounded by crystal lagoon water. Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean, Australia
Image ID: 24M2439-09D
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Striped Threefin (Helcogramma striatum) - on brain coral. Also known as Triplefin. Found on tropical coral reefs throughout the West Pacific from Japan to northern Australia
Image ID: 24M1075-01
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Southern Caracara (Caracara plancus) in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. This versatile bird of prey is known to both hunt and scavenge, especially by the Transpantaneira, a sand/mud road that cuts the world's largest swamp.
Image ID: 45T5290-01
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Australian Pelicans (Pelecanus conspicillatus), resting beside Menindee Lake, near Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. This large water bird is found throughout Australia and New Guinea. Also in Fiji and parts of Indonesia and New Zealand.
Image ID: 24T5233-64
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Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis), cleaning a female Pink Basslet (Pseudanthias hypselosoma). Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Photo taken at Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia. Within Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 24M1046-14D
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Historic miners cottage. Costerfield, country Victoria, Australia.
Image ID: 24T6053-80D
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Dragon Head Rock, on the fringe of a tidal rock platform. Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
Image ID: 24M2436-24D
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Historic Great Northern Hotel. Built from 1900 to 1901 and added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. Townsville, Far North Queensland, Australia.
Image ID: 24T6170-51D
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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.
Image ID: 43M1455-06
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Schooling Humphead Parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum), defecating digested corals. Also known as Double-headed Parrotfish. Found throughout the Indo Pacific.
Image ID: 70M1049-09
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Large numbers of Cuttlebones (back bones of the cuttlefish Sepia species) washed ashore on the high tide. Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia
Image ID: 24M1611-65D
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Black Spotted Porcupinefish (Diodon hystrix), juvenile. Photo taken off Mabul Island, Malaysia. Within the Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 70M1018-01
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Nudibranch (Chromodoris fidelis). Found throughout Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Anilao, Philippines. Within the Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 24M1624-55D
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The historic Puffing Billy crossing Belgrave Bridge, situated in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Image ID: 24T6056-86D
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Brolga (Antigone rubicunda), also known as Native Companion. Widespread in Australia. Also found in southern New Guinea and New Zealand. Photo taken north Queensland, Australia
Image ID: 24T5220-03D
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Hawksbill Sea Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). Found in tropical and warm temperate seas worldwide. Photo taken Komodo Island, Indonesia. Rare. Classified Critically Endangered species on the IUCN Red List.
Image ID: 45M2275-15
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Leaf-tailed Gecko (Saltuarius swaini), resting on the trunk of a native Bangalow Palm (Archontophoenix Cunninghamiana). Photo was taken in a rainforest situated near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
Image ID: 24T6617-14D
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Pink Whiprays (Himantura fai). Found throughout tropical Australian waters from North West Cape (WA) to Stradbroke Island (Qld). Photo taken at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Image ID: 24M2755-50D
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Beneath the Historic Prince's Pier. Built in 1915, it was originally named New Railway Pier, until renamed Prince's Pier after the Prince of Wales visited Melbourne in 1920. Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
Image ID: 24M1340-48D
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Ebor Falls, situated within Guy Fawkes River National Park, near Ebor on Waterfall Way. New England Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia.
Image ID: 24T6436-02D
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Nudibranch (Noumea alboannulata) - mating pair. Also known as Sea Slug. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Photo taken in the Philippines. Within the Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 24M1622-89D
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Coral spawning, showing suspended egg and sperm bundles. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
Image ID: 72M0208-17
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Common Dolphin (Delphinus capensis), feeding on sardine. Sardine Run, East London, South Africa. Found in warm-temperate and tropical seas throughout the world.
Image ID: 38M1413-28
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Rigid Shrimpfish (Centriscus scutatus). Also known as Razorfish. Usually seen in large schools near seawhip corals, branching corals and black coral trees throughout West Pacific to Andaman Sea, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Image ID: 24M1072-01
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Alconarian Coral and schooling Anthias reef scene. Photo taken at the Fijian Islands.
Image ID: 70M2022-31
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Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris). Found in the tropical western Atlantic from New Jersey to southern Brazil, and in the north eastern Atlantic off west Africa. Photo taken northern Bahamas, Atlantic Ocean.
Image ID: 43M2688-09
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Brighton Beach famous bathing boxes, or boatsheds, situated on Brighton beach near Melbourne. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
Image ID: 24M2430-08D
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Brisbane City and River during the night. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Image ID: 24T6120-39D
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Diver observing a large Gorgonia Coral and Sea Sponge. Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea.
Image ID: 24M0233-45D
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Bicolor Angelfish (Centropyge bicolor). Also known as Oriole Angelfish. Found throughout the Central and western Pacific, from Malaysia to Samoa Islands and Great Barrier Reef (Australia) to Japan.
Image ID: 24M1000-80D
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Scuba Diver photographing Olive Sea Snake (Aipysurus laevis) searching for prey. Also known as Golden Sea Snake. Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Image ID: 24M2244-12
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Black Marlin (Makaira indica) breaching on surface after taking a bait. Also known as Billfish. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
Image ID: 33M1038-15
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Scuba Diver exploring the inside of HMAS 'Cerberus' shipwreck. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia.
Image ID: 24M2866-11
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Acropora Corals. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
Image ID: 24M2011-06
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Flamboyant Cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi). Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Anilao, Philippines. Within the Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 24M1611-77D
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Robber Crab or Coconut Crab (Birgus latro). A species of terrestrial Hermit Crab found throughout the Indian and Pacific Ocean, becoming rare. Photo taken on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia, where very common.
Image ID: 24M0445-58D
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Beaked Leatherjacket (Oxymonacanthus longirostris). Also known as Beaked Filefish and Longnose Filefish. Usually found associated with branching or plate corals. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia, South East Asia and Indo-west Pacific
Image ID: 24M1088-013
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Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) hunting a Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pussilus pussilus). Seal Island, False Bay South Africa
Image ID: 38M2651-83
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Jellyfish (Phyllorhiza peronlesueuri) amongst stromatolites (unique humps of single celled Blue-green Algae). Hamelin Pool, Western Australia.
Image ID: 24M1211-17
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Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) on the surface. Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa. Protected species.
Image ID: 38M2667-02
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Giant Clam (Tridacna sp.), showing close detail of siphon. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Image ID: 24M1600-34D
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Scuba Diver exploring Dendronephthya Soft Coral reef. Indo-Pacific
Image ID: 24M0822-03
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Nudibranch (Flabellina exoptata) on a Sea Tunicate (Rhopalaea sp.). Found throughtout Indo-West Pacific. Photo taken at Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
Image ID: 24M1622-23
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Australian Fur Seals (Arctocephalus pusillus). Photo taken at Chinaman's Hat, Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
Image ID: 24M1422-90D
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Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) collecting pollen and nectar from a Blue-eye flower. New South Wales, Australia
Image ID: 24T5811-01
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Blackish Blind Snake (Ramphotyphlops nigrescens). Found throughout eastern Australia, from southern Queensland to Victoria, usually under rocks and logs in woodlands and rock outcrops. Non venomous. Photo taken Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
Image ID: 24T6659-05D
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Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris). Found on beaches, mudflats and rocky coasts throughout Australia. Photo taken Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
Image ID: 24T5296-09D
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Qantas Jet flying high in the sky, showing the vaporised jet stream made by the jets engines. New South Wales, Australia.
Image ID: 24T5320-32D
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Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus). This large water bird is found throughout Australia and New Guinea. Also in Fiji and parts of Indonesia and New Zealand. Photo taken at Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
Image ID: 24T5233-86D
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Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching whilst predating on the surface. Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa. Protected species.
Image ID: 38M2651-45
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Bobtail Squid (Euprymna berryi). Also known as Dumpling Squid. Photo taken in Komodo, Indonesia. Within the Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 70M1655-25
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Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus). This large water bird is found throughout Australia and New Guinea. Also in Fiji and parts of Indonesia and New Zealand. Central New South Wales coast, Australia.
Image ID: 24T5232-68D
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Paperbark Forest and Swamp, situated in the Bongil Bongil National Park, near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
Image ID: 24T6425-09D
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Sparsely-spotted Stingaree (Urolophus paucimaculatus). Also known as White-spotted Stingaree. Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia
Image ID: 24M2600-29
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Sea Pen (Sarcoptilus grandis) in tannin stained water. Port Davey, Tasmania, Australia
Image ID: 24M1227-04
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Leafy Seadragon (Phycodurus eques), with a Parasitic Fish Lice, or Parasitic Isopod (Creniola laticauda) attached. Found from Lancelin, WA, to Wilsons Promontory, Vic, but mostly in SA waters and southern WA waters. Photo: York Peninsula, South Australia.
Image ID: 24M1155-48D
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Meyer's Butterflyfish (Chaetodon meyeri). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
Image ID: 24M1022-24
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Fan Coral (Acalycigorgia sp.) - showing polyp detail. Found throughout the Indo-West Pacific, including the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Image ID: 24M0233-15
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Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) - male. Warrumbungle National Park, New South Wales, Australia
Image ID: 24T4998-23
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Aerial view of channel between Hook and Hardy Reef. Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
Image ID: 24M2422-37
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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.
Image ID: 43M1455-09
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Sunrise at Crawley Edge Boatshed, also known as the Blue Boat House, on the Swan River. Perth, Western Australia.
Image ID: 24T6180-47D
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Rainforest Logging. Malaysian logging company clear-fell logging ancient tropical rainforest in New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea.
Image ID: 24T6430-03
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Orca, or Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) - approaching shore to attack a South American Sea Lion (Otaria flavescens). Photo taken at Punta Norte, Peninsula Valdes, Argentina. Orca's are listed as Lower Risk on the IUCN Red List. Sequence 2.
Image ID: 56M1434-03
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Pink Paper-daisy wildflower (Rhodanthe chlorocephala). Northern Heathland, Western Australia.
Image ID: 24T6248-76D
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Giant Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris). Also known as Devilfish. Found in tropical waters throughout the world, mostly around coral reefs. Photo taken in Yap, Micronesia.
Image ID: 70M2711-55
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Scuba Diver with mating Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas). Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Found in tropical and warm temperate seas worldwide. Listed on the IUCN Red list as Endangered species.
Image ID: 24M0822-32
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Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching whilst predating on the surface. Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa. Protected species.
Image ID: 38M2651-46
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Grey Nurse Shark (Carcharias taurus). Known as Grey Nurse Shark (Australia), Sand Tiger Shark (USA) and Ragged-tooth Shark (South Africa). Photo taken at Solitary Islands, NSW, Australia. Classified as Vulnerable on IUCN Red List. Protected in Australia.
Image ID: 24M2645-42D
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Diver observing a large Gorgonia Coral. Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea.
Image ID: 24M0233-42D
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Zebra Urchin Crab (Zebrida adamsii) - on Fire Uchin (Asthenosoma varium). Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. Photo taken off Anilao, Philippines. Within the Coral Triangle.
Image ID: 24M0445-13D
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Scuba diver swims along the invertebrate encrusted walls of Browning Passage in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Image ID: 45M0820-01
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Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching on surface whilst attacking seal decoy. False Bay, South Africa. Protected species.
Image ID: 38M2656-73
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Currabubula Pub. Situated in Currabubula, New South Wales, Australia.
Image ID: 24T6170-64D
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