Take a stroll along almost any marina from Costa Rica to Alaska, and you"ll likely hear the playful barks of sea lions echo through the air. California sea lions, like the one pictured, are a common sight basking in the sun along the rocky shores of North America"s western coast. These marine mammals, belonging to the pinniped group, are often mistaken for seals. An easy way to distinguish between them is by looking at their ears—sea lions have visible flaps, seals don"t.
Sea lion in a kelp forest, Baja California, Mexico
Today in History
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Park of the Monsters, Bomarzo, Italy
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World Water Day
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Travel Sunday: Sintra, Portugal
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Entoloma hochstetteri mushroom at Lake Mahinapua, New Zealand
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Nha Phu Bay, Nha Trang, Vietnam
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Joshua Tree National Park, California
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Summer winds down in the Southern Hemisphere
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Black Fell in England s Lake District
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Tour de France begins
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Modica, Sicily, Italy
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A duckling swimming in a water meadow, Suffolk, England
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Let the Highland games begin
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A day of death and rebirth
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Butchart Gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada
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