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  • Covarelli, with his prize-winning Koi and previously won trophies at his home in California. Koi are a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Today Koi are bred in nearly every country and considered to be the most popular fresh-water ornamental pond fish. They are often referred to as being "living jewels" or "swimming flowers". If kept properly, koi can live about 30-40 years. Some have been reportedly known to live up to 200 years. The Koi hobbyists have bred over 100 color varieties. Every Koi is unique, and the patterns that are seen on a specific Koi can never be exactly repeated. The judging of Koi at exhibitions has become a refined art, which requires many years of understanding the relationship between color, pattern, size and shape, presentation, and a number of other key traits. Prize Koi can cost several thousand dollars  USA. MODEL RELEASED.  USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Soldier of Fortune Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Auction banquet of a captured FMLN flag from El Salvador.
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  • Very fine examples of fossilized ammonites, Sphenodiscus. The brilliant opalescent colors are due to mineral crystallization, which occurred during the fossilization process. This makes the fossils very valuable on the commercial market. The ammonites (subclass Ammonoidea) were marine mollusks, which had a clearly defined head with tentacles for gathering food. They first appeared in the Lower Devonian period (400 million years before present), becoming extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years BP). (1991)
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  • Poor people hunt for anything valuable in a landfill outside a slum settlement in the leather tanning district of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Very fine examples of fossilized ammonites, Sphenodiscus sp. The brilliant red opalescent color is due to mineral crystallization, which occurred during the fossilization process. This makes the fossils very valuable on the commercial market. The ammonites (subclass Ammonoidea) were marine mollusks, which had a clearly defined head with tentacles for gathering food. They first appeared in the Lower Devonian period (400 million years before present), becoming extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period (65 million years BP). (1991)
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  • Opalized fossil remains of the stomach of a plesiosaur. The stomach contents have been fossilized by replacement of the organic matter with tiny spheres of hydrous silicon oxide (opal). This allows paleontologists to study the diet of this marine dinosaur. As well as providing insights into its feeding habits, the stomach contents may give valuable clues as to the climate in the region in which the dinosaur lived some 120 million years ago. This specimen was found in Australia and is kept at the Sydney Museum.  [1989].
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Peter Menzel Photography

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