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Jennifer Hayes

Divers observe and film a great white shark from a cage in the waters near Guadalupe Island, Mexico. The predator is born at about 5 feet long and grows up to four times that size.

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A harp seal pup seeks shelter from the wind beneath a tall piece of ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec, Canada. Harp seals are born on the ice, and only nursed for about two weeks before their mothers move on.

Two clownfish huddle in their host anemone in the Philippines. A 2019 study found that clownfish eggs weren't hatching when exposed to artificial light at night.

An American crocodile swims through the waters of the Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park in Cuba. Male American crocodiles can grow to be 20 feet long, and weigh as much as one ton.

American photographer Jennifer Hayes captures harp seals and their newborn pups on melting sea ice in this image that won the award for “Oceans: Bigger Picture.” Every autumn, harp seals migrate south from the Arctic to their breeding grounds, delaying births until the sea ice forms. Seals depend on the ice, which means that future population numbers are likely to decline because of climate change.

The five belugas from Marineland swim in a pool at Mystic Aquarium.

After spending some time in the medical pool for observation, the beluga will be released into a larger pool with the other new arrivals.

Beluga whales are lowered into the medical pool at Mystic Aquarium on May 14 2021. Trained teams and veterinarians are in place as a crane gently lowers each whale in a sling into the shallow pool where they are observed before they are released into a larger pool with with the other relocated belugas.

A device collects breath samples from the whale’s blowhole just before it’s transferred into the medical pool at Mystic Aquarium for observation.