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Why would some PNG files extracted from games display incorrectly?

I've noticed extracting PNGs from some game files that the image becomes distorted part-way through. For example, here are a couple of PNGs extracted from the Textures file in Skyrim: Is this some ...
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Whats the point of all these Surface Formats

I am relevantly new to Graphics Programming. I have written some basic games in xna in the past but I am trying to understand what the point of all these surface formats is. For instance Xna and DDS ...