Nick Upton / Star ascidian colony (Botryllus schlosseri) growing on rock exposed on a low spring tide, near Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, August.
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Nick Upton / Dahlia anemone (Urticina felina) with yellow striped tentacles and Cushion star (Asterina gibbosa) in a rockpool low on the shore near Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, August.
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Nick Upton / Common brittle star (Ophiothrix fragilis) moving over floor of rockpool encrusted with red algae (Lithomnanion sp.), near Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, August.
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Nick Upton / Star ascidian colony (Botryllus schlosseri) growing on rock exposed on a low spring tide, near Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, August.
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Nick Upton / Star ascidian colony (Botryllus schlosseri) growing on rock exposed on a low spring tide, near Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, August.
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Nick Upton / Star ascidian colony (Botryllus schlosseri) growing on rock exposed on a low spring tide, near Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, August.
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Nick Upton / Four Sea squirts (Ascidiella scabra) attached to boulder in a rockpool alongside serpulid worm tubes, Star ascidians, Bryozoans, Barnacles and Red algae low on the shore, Helford River, Cornwall, UK,...
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Nick Upton / Common brittle star (Ophiothrix fragilis) moving over floor of rockpool encrusted with red algae past Flat / Purple Top shell (Gibbula umbilicalis), Rough periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis) and Thick-li...
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Jim Brandenburg / Aurora borealis over Moose Lake, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota
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Eric Medard / Whiskered Bat (Myotis mystacinus) drinking from water in flight, with star-trails in night sky. France, Europe, August.
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Sue Daly / Red / Soapy starfish (Echinaster sepositus) Channel Islands, UK July
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Sue Daly / Star sea squirt (Botryllus schlosseri) close up of skin pattern, Channel Islands, UK July
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Tony Phelps / Star flower (Orbea variegata) DeHoop Nature reserve. Western Cape, South Africa.
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Tony Phelps / Star flowers (Orbea variegata) one unfolding with one folded. deHoop Nature reserve. Western Cape, South Africa.
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Tony Phelps / Star flower (Orbea variegata) DeHoop Nature reserve. Western Cape, South Africa.
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Tony Phelps / Star flower (Orbea variegata) close-up. DeHoop Nature reserve. Western Cape, South Africa.
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Tony Phelps / Star flower (Orbea variegata), deHoop Nature reserve. Western Cape, South Africa.
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Jack Dykinga / Gnarled ancient Bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) lit by the full moon and star light, White Mountains Patriarch Grove, Inyo National Forest, California, USA
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Nick Upton / Spiny comb starfish / Sand star (Astropecten irregularis), inspecting Common mussels (Mytilus edulis) after being washed into a rockpool during a storm, St.Bees, Cumbria, UK, July.
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Nick Upton / Star ascidian (Botryllus schlosseri), a colonial sea squirt growing on rocks exposed on a low spring tide among barnacles, bryozoans and red algae, North Berwick, East Lothian, UK, July.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and detail of euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and limb of euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and limb of euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Purple octocoral and euryalid ophiuroid serpent star. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Brittle star (Ophiuroid). Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Brittle Star (Ophiuroid). Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Brittle Star (Ophiuroid). Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Starfish (Asteroid) with sensory and locomotive hydraulic tube feet extended. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Starfish (Asteroid) with sensory and locomotive hydraulic tube feet extended. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Starfish (Asteroid) with sensory and locomotive hydraulic tube feet extended. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Starfish (Asteroid) with sensory and locomotive hydraulic tube feet extended. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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David Shale / Starfish (Asteroid) from coral seamount. Collected from coral sea mount near Dragon vent field on SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean.
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Chris Newbert / Starfish skin, Indonesia
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Chris Newbert / Pincushion Sea Star (Culcita novaeguineae) skin, Indonesia
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Chris Newbert / Candy Cane Sea Star (Fromia monilis) skin, Indonesia
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Chris Newbert / Blue Sea Star (Linckia laevigata) with two new arms budding from one leg, Indonesia
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Alex Mustard / Cushion sea star (Oreaster reticulatus) high magnification detail of the skin gills used to absorb oxygen from the water between the red knobbly spines, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British...
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Alex Mustard / Triplefin (Enneanectes sp) between the polyps of a great star coral (Montastraea cavernosa) East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.
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Alex Mustard / Close focus wide angle view of a colony of Great star coral (Montastrea cavernosa). This photo is not digital manipulated, but taken with a fisheye lens placed very close to the coral with flashes aim...
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Alex Mustard / Secretary blenny (Acanthemblemaria maria) young peering out of its tube on the surface of a great star coral (Montastraea cavernosa) East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribb...
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Alex Mustard / Steller sealion (Eumetopias jubatus) 3 metre long male swimming out of a kelp forest, passing a colourful Sunflower star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) Race Rocks, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Colu...
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Alex Mustard / RF- Boulder star coral (Montastrea annularis) showing fluorescent green coloration, photographed under blue light at night, to excite fluorescent pigments in the coral, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman...
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Alex Mustard / Sponge brittle star (Ophiactis sp) clambering over a Red boring sponge (Cliona delitrix) covered in Sponge zoanthids (Parazoanthus parasiticus) East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Ind...
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Alex Mustard / Boulder star coral (Montastrea annularis) showing fluorescent green coloration when photographed under only blue light at night to excite the fluorescent pigments in the coral, East End, Grand Cayman,...
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Alex Mustard / Boulder star coral (Montastrea annularis) polyps of a large colony, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.
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David Shale / Feather star / sessile crinoid (Crinoidea) from coral seamount, SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean, December 2011
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David Shale / Close up of Brittle star (Ophiuroidea) from coral seamount, SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean, December 2011
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David Shale / Brittle star (Opiuroidea) on black coral, from coral seamount, SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean, December 2011
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David Shale / Feather star / stalked crinoid (Crinoidea) from coral seamount, SW Indian Ridge, Indian Ocean, November 2011
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Kevin Schafer / Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) eating a seastar, Puget Sound, Washington
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Kevin Schafer / Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) eating a sea star, Puget Sound, Washington
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Charlie Summers / The transit of Venus across the face of the sun, with visible sunspots, as seen from Aurora, Colorado, USA, 16.24 local time, 5 June 2012.
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Charlie Summers / The transit of Venus across the face of the sun, with visible sunspots, as seen from Aurora, Colorado, USA, 18.01 local time, 5 June 2012.
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Juergen Freund / Transit of the planet Venus acros the Sun, projected onto hand, Cairns, North Queensland, Australia, 11:41 local time, 6 June 2012.
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Juergen Freund / Transit of the planet Venus acros the Sun, taken from Cairns, North Queensland, Australia, image taken with use of a BAADER filter, 09.43 local time, 6 June 2012.
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Charlie Summers / The transit of Venus across the face of the sun, with visible sunspots, as seen from Aurora, Colorado, USA, 19.49 local time, 5 June 2012.
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Charlie Summers / The transit of Venus across the face of the sun, with visible sunspots, as seen from Aurora, Colorado, USA, 16.33 local time, 5 June 2012.
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Oriol Alamany / Transit of the planet Venus acros the Sun, image taken from Barcelona, Spain, 06.38, 6 June 2012.
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Oriol Alamany / Transit of the planet Venus acros the Sun, image taken from Barcelona, Spain, 06.36, 6 June 2012.
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Merryn Thomas / Ambulance boat "Star of Life" moored in St. Mary's Harbour, Isles of Scilly, UK. May 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Rounding a mark, Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
Norbert Wu / Brittle Star (Ophionotus victoriae) trying to defend itself against Antarctic Sun Starfish (Labidiaster annulatus), Palmer Station, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
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Norbert Wu / Sea Star (Perknaster aurorae) on Brown Algae (Himantothallus grandifolius) and scuba diver, Palmer Station, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica
Konrad Wothe / Animal tracks in snow near Penzberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Onne van der Wal / Bacardi Star Regatta, Miami 2009.
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Alex Mustard / Great star coral (Montastraea cavernosa) photographed at night under blue light to excite the fluorescence, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. Bristish West Indies, Caribbean Sea.
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Alex Mustard / Boulder star coral (Montastrea annularis) photographed under blue light to excite the fluorescence, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.
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Alex Mustard / Great star coral (Montastrea cavernosa) at night, photographed under blue light to excite the fluorescence, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.
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Alex Mustard / Great star coral (Montastrea cavernosa) at night, with polyps extended and feeding, photographed under blue light to excite the fluorescence, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribb...
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Alex Mustard / Coral fluorescence photographed at night under blue light to excite the fluorescence, this image is probably a colony of knobby star coral (Solenastea hyades), Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. British W...
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Alex Mustard / Boulder star coral (Montastrea annularis) photographed under blue light to excite the green fluorescence, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.
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Alex Mustard / Grey angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus) swimming over a colony of great star coral (Montastrea cavernosa) Georgetown, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.
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Alex Mustard / Great star coral (Montastrea cavernosa) male releasing clouds of sperm into the water column, during its synchronised annual spawning event, several hours after sunset in late summer, East End, Grand...
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Alex Mustard / Great star coral (Montastrea cavernosa) male releasing clouds of sperm into the water column, during its synchronised annual spawning event, several hours after sunset in late summer, East End, Grand...