Images Dated 2022 January

Close up of the tube feet of a Purple velvet seastar (Leiaster leachi), extending from the protective crevice in one of its arms, Maui, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean

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Animal, Animal Arms, Animal Feet, Animalia, Arm, Arms, Asteroidea, Close Up, Colour, Colourful, Cryptic, Echinoderm, Echinodermata, Feet, Foot, Full Frame, Hawaii, Hawaii Islands, Invertebrate, Invertebrates, Leachs Sea Star, Leiaster, Leiaster Leachi, Marine, Maui, Ocean, Ophidiasteridae, Pacific Ocean, Pink, Purple, Saltwater, Sea Star, Star Fish, Starfish, Underwater, Valvatida, Vibrant Colour, Water, Wildlife, Yellow

Male Yellowface pike-blenny (Chaenopsis limbaughi), living in abandoned tubeworm holes in sand, flaring its dorsal fin in threat display, Dominica, Eastern Caribbean

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Acanthopteri, Actinopterygii, Aggression, Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animalia, Biodiversity Hotspots, Bony Fish, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Chaenopsidae, Chaenopsis, Chaenopsis Limbaughi, Defensive, Dominica, Dorsal Fin, Dorsal Fins, Fin, Fins, Fish, Flagblennies, Homes, Male Animal, Marine, Ocean, Osteichthyes, Perciformes, Percomorphi, Pike Blennies, Pikeblennies, Ray Finned Fish, Saltwater, Sands, Seabed, Territorial, Territories, Territory, The Caribbean, Tube Blennies, Underwater, Vertebrate, Water, West Indies, Wildlife, Yellowface Pike Blenny

Weasel (Mustela erminea) in white winter coat standing upright in snow, Upper Bavaria, Germany, Europe. February

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