Seahorse A pregnant male pygmy seahorse floats in the waters of Indonesia’s Raja Ampat Islands. Seahorses are among the only animal species on Earth in which the male bears the unborn young, a unique trait in these fish that inhabit tropical and temperate coastal waters worldwide. ..Male seahorses are equipped with a brood pouch on their ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the female deposits her eggs into his pouch, and the male fertilizes them internally. He carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases fully formed, miniature seahorses into the water.

DIVER IN CORAL GARDEN, DOMINICA ISLAND, CARIBBEAN SEA Off Scotts Head, Dominica Island, a sunken garden of sponges and coral rewards a visitor, part of a growing stream of divers discovering Dominica’s marine life. With one of the most vibrant underwater ecosystems in the Caribbean, Dominica offers scuba divers aquarium-clear water with visibility that can reach 100 feet (30 meters).
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A 10-story behemoth knowsn as Monks Mound is the centerpiece of the 2,200-acre Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Eighty surviving mounds dot this cultural World Heritage site; some were used as building platforms, some for burials..

Cape York Peninsula is a land of extremes —scorched in one season and sodden in the next. Rivers burst their banks during five months of monsoon rains, only to evaporate during seven months of withering drought.

 

A green turtle glides over a wasteland of dead coral near Kanton island in the central Pacific. Before water temperatures spiked here in 2002 - 03, this reef was brimming with life.