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A French Queen Angelfish hovers over a red sponge. 🔎

A sea turtle glides over the submerged breakwater with a colorful wrasse in tow. 🔎

This little ambush predator sways like a dead leaf until an unsuspecting meal drifts close. 🔎

A tiny reef crustacean lives in this Padang Bai sponge- two species almost as old as all complex life. 🔎

Graduation. 🔎

Anemones can display vivid greens, purples, reds, and blues because their tissues contain fluorescent proteins that absorb sunlight and re-emit it as glowing color. 🔎

Cuttlefish can raise and flatten tiny skin structures called papillae, allowing them to copy the texture of rocks, coral, or sand almost instantly 🔎

Cleaner shrimp will sometimes crawl directly into a moray eel’s mouth to eat parasites while the eel patiently holds still. 🔎

Bubble coral inflates its soft, balloon-like tentacles during the day to absorb light, then shrinks them at night when it switches to feeding. 🔎

Lemon damsel, blue-green chromis and branching Acropora—three bright signs that Pemuteran’s coral gardens are thriving with life. 🔎

Anemones can build on many materials, even wrecks. 🔎

Mount Agung is sacred; the dwelling place of the gods and the spiritual axis connecting heaven and earth. 🔎

After rain, Amed’s dry hills glow green in the shadow of volcanic Mount Agung. 🔎

Clownfish can live with their parents for their entire lives, sometimes more than 20 years, without ever leaving home. 🔎

Manned by a Moorish Idol. 🔎

An extensive coral garden has revitalized this bay. 🔎

Trumpetfish are stealth experts. They can change color to match their surroundings and blend in perfectly.  🔎

Sponges like this one belong to one of the oldest animal lineages on Earth, dating back over 600 million years. Before dinosaurs, before trees, before most animals even existed. 🔎

Spot the resident shrimp. 🔎

Big smile. 🔎

The limestone cliffs of Curaçao were formed from ancient coral reefs that grew underwater millions of years ago and were later lifted above sea level. 🔎

The region is tectonically active, adding to its dramatic landscape. 🔎

Just need to make it blue. 🔎

The Gobi Desert’s high altitude makes night time temperatures frigid year round. 🔎