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Image: Yellowstone Tracking Boat
Yellowstone Tracking Boat
Yellowstone Tracking Boat
Yellowstone Tracking Boat

A radio tracking boat cruises down a flooded Yellowstone River in search of telemetered pallid sturgeon. 

A radio tracking boat cruises down a flooded Yellowstone River in search of telemetered pallid sturgeon. 

Image: A Cormorant's Meal
A Cormorant's Meal
A Cormorant's Meal
A Cormorant's Meal

After a long struggle to position the fish just right, a double-crested cormorant finishes off a relatively young spotted gar.

After a long struggle to position the fish just right, a double-crested cormorant finishes off a relatively young spotted gar.

Image: Under the Everglades
Under the Everglades
Under the Everglades
Under the Everglades

Though not as charismatic, the underwater periphyton and other vegetation are the primary support for all other life in the ecosystem.

Though not as charismatic, the underwater periphyton and other vegetation are the primary support for all other life in the ecosystem.

Image: Wildlife at Summer Lake Wildlife Area
Wildlife at Summer Lake Wildlife Area
Wildlife at Summer Lake Wildlife Area
Wildlife at Summer Lake Wildlife Area

A pair of pelicans and in the background a Great Blue Heron in a Wetland at Summerlake Wildlife Area.

Image: Viewing Pacific Lamprey
Viewing Pacific Lamprey
Viewing Pacific Lamprey
Viewing Pacific Lamprey

Deputy Assistant Secretary Deanna Archuleta tours the Bonneville Dam to view the fish ladder and in particular the native Pacific Lampreys used as first foods by Tribes along the Columbia River.

Deputy Assistant Secretary Deanna Archuleta tours the Bonneville Dam to view the fish ladder and in particular the native Pacific Lampreys used as first foods by Tribes along the Columbia River.

Image: Listening
Listening
Listening
Listening

A USGS employee locates a telemetry tagged pallid sturgeon between attempts to recapture the fish with a trammel net in the Missouri River. 

A USGS employee locates a telemetry tagged pallid sturgeon between attempts to recapture the fish with a trammel net in the Missouri River. 

Image: Pallid Embryo
Pallid Embryo
Pallid Embryo
Pallid Embryo

Pallid sturgeon embryo propagated at the Columbia Environmental Research Center.

Pallid sturgeon embryo propagated at the Columbia Environmental Research Center.

Image: Sunrise on the Suisun Bay
Sunrise on the Suisun Bay
Sunrise on the Suisun Bay
Sunrise on the Suisun Bay

Sunrise peering through early morning tule fog in Suisun Bay, California.

Image: A Mesquite Savanna Plant Community in the Sonoran Desert
A Mesquite Savanna Plant Community in the Sonoran Desert
A Mesquite Savanna Plant Community in the Sonoran Desert
A Mesquite Savanna Plant Community in the Sonoran Desert

In the semiarid mesquite savanna community, pictured here, perennial grasses and forbs both are likely to decline as annual and winter precipitation decline with forecasted climate change.

In the semiarid mesquite savanna community, pictured here, perennial grasses and forbs both are likely to decline as annual and winter precipitation decline with forecasted climate change.

Image: Rockfishes Inhabit Oil Platforms
Rockfishes Inhabit Oil Platforms
Rockfishes Inhabit Oil Platforms
Image: Florida Panther
Florida Panther
Florida Panther
Florida Panther

Florida panther; Puma concolor coryi, remains one of the most endangered mammals in the world.

Florida panther; Puma concolor coryi, remains one of the most endangered mammals in the world.

Image: Mbatuitui (Tringa flavipes, Tringa melanoleuca)
Mbatuitui (Tringa flavipes, Tringa melanoleuca)
Mbatuitui (Tringa flavipes, Tringa melanoleuca)
Image: Gastrocopta germindens
Gastrocopta germindens
Gastrocopta germindens
Gastrocopta germindens

Gastrocopta germindens shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Image: Gastrocopta gularis
Gastrocopta gularis
Gastrocopta gularis
Gastrocopta gularis

Gastrocopta gularis shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Gastrocopta gularis shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Image: Wandering Snag Snail (Gastrocopta servilis)
Wandering Snag Snail (Gastrocopta servilis)
Wandering Snag Snail (Gastrocopta servilis)
Wandering Snag Snail (Gastrocopta servilis)

Gastrocopta servilis shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with a zoom-in of the aperture.

Image: Spiraxis sp.
Spiraxis sp.
Spiraxis sp.
Spiraxis sp.

Spiraxis sp. shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

Spiraxis sp. shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

Image: Strobilops sp.
Strobilops sp.
Strobilops sp.
Strobilops sp.

Strobilops sp. shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

Strobilops sp. shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

Image: Thysanophora crinita
Thysanophora crinita
Thysanophora crinita
Thysanophora crinita

Close-up view of Thysanophora crinita shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Close-up view of Thysanophora crinita shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope.

Image: Miradiscops panamensis
Miradiscops panamensis
Miradiscops panamensis
Miradiscops panamensis

Miradiscops panamensis shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

Miradiscops panamensis shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

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