Anton Sorokin

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Biologist, freelance photographer & sometimes journalist. Endlessly fascinated with frog behavior and everything else too (he/him) On IG: Antonsrkn Associate fellow - iLCP

Willow leaves on a black background, the leaves have bright red nodules or galls on them.
A very young white-lipped mud turtle (Kinosternon leucostomum) being held by a scientist.
A green sturgeon swimming along the bottom of a California river.
A hickatee turtle comes to the surface to take a quick breath of air.
A giant musk turtle angerly and defensively opening its mouth showing off its jaws and tongue.
A reef shark swims overhead in front of a backdrop of blue water
A drowned rat and a signal crayfish scavenging it underwater on a silty bottom.
A school of Lavinia exilicauda fish in a deep section.
A researcher stands in a cave looking up at the ceiling, her shadow is cast on the cave wall behind her.
A portrait of a pair of chinook salmon, the male salmon in front and female in back. Signs of deterioration are obvious on the salmon as they reach the end of their life cycle and fall apart after reproducing.
A back of camera view of a photo of a salamander in a flooded portion of a cave.
A top down view of a very young Santa Cruz black salamander on a boulder. At this age the salamander is still bronze colored and speckled.
Several coastal rainbow trout shelter underneath a waterfall
A huddle of red bellied newts struggle in a mating ball.
A pair of neotenic giant salamanders at the bottom of a stream.
A close view of a bumpy neotenic california giant salamander (Dicamptodon ensatus) at the bottom of a stream at night.
A large neotenic adult california giant salamander underwater at the bottom of a cold stream at night. Its skin is bumpy, perhaps a sign of trematode infection and despite its large size the gills are small as the cold flowing water is well oxygenated.
A large paedomorphic pacific giant salamander underwater
A colorful San Francisco gartersnake resting on tall vegetation.
A 20 dollar bill next to mountain lion footprints in the mud
A marine iguana male mates with a female, he bites her neck and wraps around her
A long alligator lizard on a rock on a hillside at sunset in the orange glow of sunset
A large anemone on the ocean floor, stalks of kelp and fish in the background.
A scuba diver descending into kelp forest
The front page of a newspaper, an article and photo about biological research on wildlife is next to an article about Russia readying nuclear forces
An underwater red sockeye salmon near the waters surface looking up, a few minnows swim infront.
Colorful fish in the shallows of a stream
A tiger salamander laying eggs underwater
A red coho salmon sheltering beneath fallen branches in a river
A portrait of a green viper with its tongue out
An vibrant orange salamander coiled on mulch.
A small mouselike squirrel scurrying up a tree
A california tiger salamander upside down underwater, laying eggs.
Coho salmon underwater
An aerial view of a muddy river flowing through pine forest and low mist over the trees.
A trout parr near the bottom of a river.
A chinook salmon wedged underneath a log
A mixed species school of salmon with mostly coho salmon but also one chinook at the bottom of a river swimming towards the camera.
A macro photo of a sundew plant
A tiger salamander larvae with large gills
A chinook salmon cleaning her nest at the bottom of a river.
A photo of a bright red salamander taken at eye level on the forest floor.