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Red Pigfish and Blue Mao-Mao school at the edge of a cavern in New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands. Read photographer Brian Skerry's story behind this photo.

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Behind the Photo: The Primal Ocean

October 2012

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A blue cod and sea pens, a unique type of cnidarian, speckle the seafloor in New Zealand's Fiordland region.

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Blue Cod Amongst Sea Pens

September 2013

A school of yellowfin surgeonfish feed near dusk off Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands.

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Yellowfin Surgeonfish

December 2011

A wrought iron butterflyfish being cleaned by a small wrasse in the waters of Japan's Ogasawara Islands.

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Butterflyfish and Wrasse

December 2011

A yellow moray eel inside of a sea sponge in the waters off of Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand

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Moray Waits for a Meal

June 2017

A tiny yellow goby living inside an abandoned can on the seafloor; Suruga Bay, Japan

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Yellow Goby

December 2011