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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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Protected Pigfish and Mao-Mao School

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Colorful corals are disappearing in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Coral at the Great Barrier Reef

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A coral has just spawned. Each of the hundreds of polyps releases a small pink bundle of sperm and eggs.
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Coral Spawning by Moonlight

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A decomposing sea star loses its grip on a rock.
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A Starfish Wasting Away

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Two coral trout swim on a reef in Fiji.
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Coral Trout in a Fiji Reef

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a larval fish fans its pectoral fins
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Baby Searobin

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thin, green stalks of a succulent plant grow up
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Sea Beans

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A close-up of tiny teeth on the common whelk's radula.
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A Snail's Rainbow Radula

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A preserved cookie cutter shark, in a jar.
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Cookie Monster of the Sea

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Antarctica is almost entirely covered by ice sheets up to two miles (3 km) thick, which contain roughly 70% of the world’s freshwater.
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Ross Sea Ice Shelf

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This young Gonatus squid is still translucent, making it tricky for predators to spot it.
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Deep Sea Squid

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Corolla moves through the water by flapping a wing plate nearly twice the size of its gelatinous shell, giving it the nickname “sea butterfly”.
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Sea Butterfly

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