OUACHITA MADTOM
The finger-length Ouachita madtom lives only in the Saline River in Arkansas. —Noturus lachneri
STING RAY
TOMATO CLOWNFISH
A male tomato clownfish (Amphiprion frenatus) tends his field of developing eggs like a gardener, scooping away ones with dead embryos. He oxygenates the eggs by fanning them with his pectoral fins.
MORAY EEL
Seventy miles southwest of Tokyo, a moray eel slithers through the branches of a soft coral in the cool waters of Suruga Bay. Deep and narrow, the bay plummets more than 8,000 feet (243 meters).
KOI FEEDING, TEXAS
Blue sky reflects off the surface waves created by a koi surfacing to feed in our backyard pond.
TARPON AND SILVERSIDES, GRAND CAYMAN
The picture was taken at Eden Rock, Grand Cayman. For just a short time every year these silversides swarm caves and swim-throughs at Cayman's dive sites. The picture was taken late afternoon just as the sun was going down. I was hiding behind the silversides, low in the rocks. As the tarpon swam through the silversides, they eventually saw me and turned away. Just like you see in the picture.
A venomous lionfish breaks into a huge ball of swirling baitfish.
