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Jennifer Hayes

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.

Kharabali, in her crate, is loaded onto the C-130 airplane for the flight to Connecticut.

At Hamilton International Airport in Ontario, staff check on Jetta before she’s transferred onto the plane.

Beluga whale Jetta is secured in her transport container on the back of a flatbed truck for the drive from Marineland to the airport.