Pool images - Joel Sartore

Photo

ONA007-00180

Staff members at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center transport ‘Megan’ an olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea). This animal came in after becoming entangled in fishing gear. Once rehabbed, the animal will be released in waters off the coast.

Photo

ONA007-00181

Photo

ONA007-00182

Staff members at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center care for ‘Megan’ an olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea). This animal came in after becoming entangled in fishing gear. Once rehabbed, the animal will be released in waters off the coast.

Photo

PEO006-00209

A family stages a humorous scene in a pool in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Photo

PEO004-00574

A family sands over a man in a pool, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Photo

PEO002-00244

Dogs splash about on the last day a public swimming pool is open.

Photo

PEO002-00245

Dogs splash about on the last day a public swimming pool is open.

Photo

PEO002-00246

Dogs splash about on the last day a public swimming pool is open.

Photo

PEO002-00241

A boy jumps of the diving board at Crofton pool, Crofton, Nebraska.

Photo

PEO002-00242

A group of kids in the Crofton pool, Crofton, Nebraska.

A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer).

Photo

ANI013-00144

A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer).

A Department of Game and Fish employee checks on a federally endangered Socorro isopod (Thermosphaeroma thermophilum).

Photo

ENV020-00299

A Department of Game and Fish employee checks on a federally endangered Socorro isopod (Thermosphaeroma thermophilum).

Photo

SCE051-00352

A female great frigatebirds (Fregata minor) on Tower Island in Galapagos National Park.

Photo

SPO014-00002

Retirees frolic in a pool at the Fun N Sun Resort in San Benito, one of many border communities that attract “winter Texans” from the north every fall.

Photo

PEO006-00198

Atop the 80-foot tower during a high dive act at the Nebraska state fair.

Photo

SCE030-00044

Hot breath of active volcanoes rises from roiling thermal pool fields in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo

ANI082-00154

A flooded cornfield, typical habitat for amphibian breeding in vernal pools in Kansas.

Herpetologists look for central newts (Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis) at a vernal pool in Bennett Springs State Park near Lebanon, Missouri.

Photo

ANI082-00155

Herpetologists look for central newts (Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis) at a vernal pool in Bennett Springs State Park near Lebanon, Missouri.