Photo of the Day

Picture of a Caribbean reef shark swimming over a coral reef in the Bahamas
July 14, 2022

Shark Heaven

A Caribbean reef shark swims over a coral reef in the Bahamas. This photo appeared in a March 2007 story documenting the 40 species of sharks found in the Bahamas, and was appropriately called "Blue Waters of the Bahamas: An Eden for Sharks."
Photograph by Brian J. Skerry, Nat Geo Image Collection

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