979-7436 - Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) stalking, then killing and eating an adult gentoo penguin in Paradise Bay, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-6975 - Adult humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively "bubble-net" feeding along the west side of Chatham Strait in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7437 - Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) stalking, then killing and eating an adult gentoo penguin in Paradise Bay, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7182 - Adult Black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) feeding and preening chick at breeding colony on New Island in the Falkland Islands, Southern Atlantic Ocean
979-7772 - Reflections in calm water photographed from the Lindblad Expedition Ship National Geographic Explorer operating in Antarctica, Southern Ocean.
979-7070 - The Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer in Dahlman Bay in late evening light as the waxing moon rises on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.
979-7044 - Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for pink salmon near the salmon weir at Pavlof Harbor on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7071 - The Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer in Dahlman Bay in late evening light as the waxing moon rises on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.
979-7323 - Adult Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) power lunging in the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean
979-7026 - A female black bear (Ursus americanus) fishing for sockeye salmon near Mendenhall Glacier outside of Juneau, Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean
979-7330 - The Lindblad Expeditions ship National Geographic Explorer pushes through ice in Crystal Sound, south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7431 - Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) stalking, then killing and eating an adult gentoo penguin in Paradise Bay, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7010 - Adult humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) co-operatively "bubble-net" feeding along the west side of Chatham Strait in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7102 - Southern Giant Petrels (Macronectes giganteus) attacking and eventually killing an imperial rock shag (Phalacrocorax (atriceps) atriceps) on a tiny offshore reef in the Beagle Channel outside Ushuaia, Argentina
979-7364 - Full moon (plus 1 day) rising over icebergs in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. MORE INFO This moonrise occurred on January 1, 2010, the night after the blue moon full of December 31, 2009.
979-6982 - Hamatsa dancers from the Kwakwa_ka_'wakw first nations people in Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada. No model or property releases for this image.
979-7409 - Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) stalking, then killing and eating an adult gentoo penguin in Paradise Bay, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7563 - Guests from the Lindblad Expedition ship National Geographic Explorer enjoy a hot asado sandwich prepared by staff at BBQ on an ice floe near Adelaide Island, Antarctica
979-7329 - The Lindblad Expeditions ship National Geographic Explorer pushes through ice in Crystal Sound, south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7041 - Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for pink salmon near the salmon weir at Pavlof Harbor on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA. Pacific Ocean.
979-7425 - Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) stalking, then killing and eating an adult gentoo penguin in Paradise Bay, Antarctica, Southern Ocean
979-7320 - Adult Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) power lunging in the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean