Flora Peach rides Pippin the pony around her family’s Marblehead home as her dog, Rosie, looks on from the couch.
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A Double Crested Cormorant aims to catch a minnow tossed from its beak on the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich, MA on August 19, 2025.
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A sheep rests on a bed of its own wool after being sheared for the season in Berlin Vermont, May 6.
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A lobster flies back into the ocean after being freed by lobster trapper Susan Michaud, of Marblehead.
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Quincy, MA – 11/20/2025: A caregiver holds a sea turtle’s head in an exam room at the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital on Thursday, Nov. 20, in Quincy. The aquarium is treating over 200 cold-stunned hypothermic sea turtles that have washed ashore on Massachusetts beaches as temperatures have dropped.