Photo of the Day

fish swimming around a seamount off the coast of California
September 26, 2012

Seamount, Cortes Bank

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An orange sheephead, slender wrasses, and other fish swim through a forest of coralline algae and kelp stalks swaying in the current around Cortes Bank. "The communities you find on seamounts are like oases in otherwise deep water," says Bruce Robison, senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California.

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Photograph by Brian Skerry, National Geographic

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