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National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: Bones

A fruit bat (Lissonycteris angolensis) hanging with wings folded, from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A fruit bat (Lissonycteris angolensis) hanging with wings folded, from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: A helmeted hornbill head that's been carved intricately.

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A helmeted hornbill head that’s been carved intricately. Carving of the bird’s bills for ivory has led to a massive decline in this species. This was dropped off by an anonymous donor more than a dozen years ago at the Houston Zoo.

Photo: A helmeted hornbill head that's been carved intricately.

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A helmeted hornbill head that’s been carved intricately. Carving of the bird’s bills for ivory has led to a massive decline in this species. This was dropped off by an anonymous donor more than a dozen years ago at the Houston Zoo.

Photo: A helmeted hornbill head that's been carved intricately.

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A helmeted hornbill head that’s been carved intricately. Carving of the bird’s bills for ivory has led to a massive decline in this species. This was dropped off by an anonymous donor more than a dozen years ago at the Houston Zoo.

Photo: A helmeted hornbill head that's been carved intricately.

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A helmeted hornbill head that’s been carved intricately. Carving of the bird’s bills for ivory has led to a massive decline in this species. This was dropped off by an anonymous donor more than a dozen years ago at the Houston Zoo.

Photo: Gulls feed on the remains of a bowhead whale caught and butchered by Alaska Natives on the North Slope.

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Gulls feed on the remains of a bowhead whale caught and butchered by Alaska Natives on the North Slope.

Photo: A captive gray wolf in an acclimation pen shortly before its release into Yellowstone National Park.

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A captive gray wolf in an acclimation pen shortly before its release into Yellowstone National Park.

A painted mural at Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska's State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A painted mural at Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska’s State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

‘Archie,’ the world’s largest mammoth skeleton. On display at Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska's State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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‘Archie,’ the world’s largest mammoth skeleton. On display at Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska’s State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

‘Archie,’ the world’s largest mammoth skeleton. On display at Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska's State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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‘Archie,’ the world’s largest mammoth skeleton. On display at Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska’s State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

‘Archie,’ the world’s largest mammoth skeleton. On display at Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska's State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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‘Archie,’ the world’s largest mammoth skeleton. On display at Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska’s State Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Photo: Salmon heads washed up on the banks of the Columbia river at a Native American fish-cleaning site near Celilo, OR.

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Salmon heads washed up on the banks of the Columbia river at a Native American fish-cleaning site near Celilo, OR.

Photo: Salmon heads washed up on the banks of the Columbia river at a Native American fish-cleaning site near Celilo, OR.

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Salmon heads washed up on the banks of the Columbia river at a Native American fish-cleaning site near Celilo, OR.

Photo: Salmon heads washed up on the banks of the Columbia river at a Native American fish-cleaning site near Celilo, OR.

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Salmon heads washed up on the banks of the Columbia river at a Native American fish-cleaning site near Celilo, OR.

Photo: A biologist looks down at the bones of a Steller sea lion in Vancouver Island's Clayoquot Sound (British Columbia, Canada.)

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A biologist looks down at the bones of a Steller sea lion in Vancouver Island’s Clayoquot Sound (British Columbia, Canada.)

Photo: The remains of an elk killed by wild gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley.

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The remains of an elk killed by wild gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Valley.

Photo: The remains of an elk killed by wild gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park.

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The remains of an elk killed by wild gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park.

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