Photos: The Wonders of Ocean Life
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Olivier Morin / AFP / GettyA male orca chases a bait ball of herring near Spildra Island, in northern Norway, on November 3, 2025. Dozens of killer whales and their clans follow schools of herring gathering in the fjords of northern Norway from October to January, on the hunt.Trevor Wilkinson / MI News / NurPhoto / GettyA grey seal, photographed on the Farne Islands in Northumberland, England, on May 31, 2026Tahsin Ceylan / Anadolu / GettyA sea anemone, imaged using a blue-light source and ultraviolet photography, in the Red Sea, off the coast of Egypt, on July 29, 2025Alexis Rosenfeld / GettyAn underwater view of a mangrove forest in the Mayotte Marine Natural Park, seen on November 28, 2017, in the Comoros archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. The mangroves of Mayotte are home to seven species of mangrove trees. Mangroves are among the most biomass-productive ecosystems on the planet.Özge Elif Kızıl / Anadolu / GettyA diver swims among fish in Kicker Rock Islet near San Cristobal Island, part of the Galapagos archipelago, on February 9, 2025. Galapagos National Park spans 13 main islands and numerous islets, and is home to more than 2,900 marine species.Ernesto Benavides / AFP / GettyA marine iguana swims in Tortuga Bay off Santa Cruz Island, part of the Galapagos archipelago in Ecuador, on March 6, 2024.Tahsin Ceylan / Anadolu / GettyStarfish walk across piles of shells in the Sea of Marmara, near Yalova, Turkey, on May 8, 2026.Şebnem Coşkun / Anadolu / GettyGentoo penguins clamber down a tall iceberg near Adelaide Island in Antarctica on February 14, 2025.Tahsin Ceylan / Anadolu / GettyA shark, surrounded by pilot fish, swims along Saint John’s Reef in the Red Sea, along southern Egypt, on August 27, 2025.Dan Kitwood / GettyA northern gannet flies over the sea at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ Bempton Cliffs reserve on the East Yorkshire coast, on May 26, 2026, in Bridlington, England. About 20,000 Gannets, which pair for life and can live for more than 20 years, make up the quarter of a million seabirds that return to nest each summer on the 100-meter-high chalk cliffs.Denis Poroy / APA girl watches a pod of common dolphins fleeing an orca off of Point Loma on January 29, 2024, near San Diego.Lokman Ilhan / Anadolu / GettyA hermit crab, photographed up close, off the coast of Karaburun in İzmir, Turkey, on June 21, 2026.Alexis Rosenfeld / GettyA reef manta ray swims in the Mayotte Marine Natural Park, in the Comoros Archipelago of the Indian Ocean, on November 26, 2017. Created in 2010, Mayotte Marine Natural Park was the first to have been created by France in its overseas territories.Tahsin Ceylan / Anadolu / GettyA Chromodoris annae, a type of sea slug, photographed near Si Amil Island, in Tawau, Malaysia, on June 4, 2026Şebnem Coşkun / Anadolu / GettyA humpback whale surfaces and dives in Antarctic waters near an iceberg on February 4, 2026.Tahsin Ceylan / Anadolu / GettyAs photographed on September 10, 2025, fish swarm around part of the underwater wreck of the British cargo ship Thistlegorm, which was sunk by German aircraft in 1941. The wreck, situated about 40 kilometers west of Sharm El-Sheikh, off the coast of Egypt, is one of the Red Sea’s most popular diving spots. Armored vehicles, jeeps, and Norton motorcycles designed for the desert all lie in the dark waters, serving as a habitat for diverse marine life.Trevor Wilkinson / MI News / NurPhoto / GettyAn Atlantic puffin returns to its burrow with sand eels in its beak, on the Farne Islands, Northumberland, England, on May 31, 2026.Şebnem Coşkun / Anadolu / GettyA humpback whale swims past an Antarctic science expedition on March 1, 2025.Jwala Kotesh / NurPhoto / GettyOlive ridley sea turtles emerge from a nest in a protected hatchery along the shore in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India, on April 1, 2026.Mahmut Serdar Alakuş / Anadolu / GettyA view of the vibrant underwater world at one of Musandam’s popular diving sites in Khasab, Oman, on August 28, 2025Tahsin Ceylan / Anadolu / GettyA giant clam, photographed in the Red Sea, near Egypt, on December 12, 2025.Ronen Tivony / NurPhoto / GettyCormorants, diving birds known for catching fish underwater, are seen at Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida.Reinhard Dirscherl / Ullstein Bild / GettyA scuba diver swims near a moray eel in the Red Sea, near Hurghada, Soma Bay, Egypt, in December of 2005.Şebnem Coşkun / Anadolu / GettyBeluga whales are observed during a Turkish Scientific Research expedition near Norway’s Svalbard Islands, in the Arctic Ocean, on July 23, 2022.Şebnem Coşkun / Anadolu / GettyDolphins swim near the shore of Istanbul, Turkey, on June 9, 2026.Tahsin Ceylan / Anadolu / GettyA purple nudibranch, photographed off the coast of Çeşme, near İzmir, Turkey, on October 25, 2025.Alexis Rosenfeld / GettyA turtle swims beneath the surface, with a sailboat’s masts visible in the background, near Toulon, France, on July 5, 2020.
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