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Photo of the Day

January 12, 2004

 

Photo: Dusky Dolphin

Dusky Dolphin, New Zealand, 1997

Photograph by Maria Stenzel

"Gliding through luminous seas, a dusky dolphin patrols the top layer of New Zealand's teeming Kaikoura Canyon."

—From "Deep Mysteries of Kaikoura Canyon," June 1998, National Geographic magazine

 

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