Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: Skeleton

Photo: A dead Kemp's Ridley sea turtle lies covered in orange paint to signal biologists that it has been dead for awhile, and has been noted.

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A dead Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle lies covered in orange paint to signal biologists that it has been dead for awhile, and has been noted.

Photo: A whale skeleton on Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

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A whale skeleton on Fernandina Island in Galapagos National Park.

Picture of a skull of an American bison (Bison bison) on the Triple U Ranch near Ft. Pierre, South Dakota.

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A skull of an American bison (Bison bison) on the Triple U Ranch near Ft. Pierre, South Dakota. This ranch has about 2,000 head of bison on over 50,000 acres.

Photo: A deceased American bison (Bison bison) on the Triple U Ranch near Ft. Pierre, South Dakota.

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A deceased American bison (Bison bison) on the Triple U Ranch near Ft. Pierre, South Dakota. This ranch has about 2,000 head of bison on over 50,000 acres.

Photo: A steer head skeleton on the prairie at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge near Valentine, Nebraska.

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A steer head skeleton on the prairie at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge near Valentine, Nebraska.

Photo: Chiropractors work behind the scenes re-aligning the jostled skeletons of cowboys at Nebraska's Big Rodeo in Burwell.

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Chiropractors work behind the scenes re-aligning the jostled skeletons of cowboys at Nebraska’s Big Rodeo in Burwell.

Photo: Chiropractors work behind the scenes re-aligning the jostled skeletons of cowboys at Nebraska's Big Rodeo in Burwell.

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Chiropractors work behind the scenes re-aligning the jostled skeletons of cowboys at Nebraska’s Big Rodeo in Burwell.

Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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Morrill Hall, featuring Archie the mammoth skeleton. At the University of Nebraska State Museum.

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: 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.)

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