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This 1874 illustration of California gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) shows a group of individuals at the edge of their modern day range in the North Pacific Ocean, blocked from traveling further east into Arctic waters by thick ice barriers.

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California Grays Among the Ice

November 2015

A Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), a species with a normal range in the North Atlantic, interacting with the native Brandt’s cormorants (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) sighted on the Farallon Islands, located off the coast of San Francisco, California in t

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Northern Gannet in the Pacific

November 2015

A beroid ctenophore lunges toward prey with its mouth wide open.

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Mouth Agape Comb Jelly

August 2015