Three new fish species found in deep south Pacific trench
- 5 years ago
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Three bizarre fish that live nearly five miles below the surface of the ocean have been discovered by British scientists. The new species of ghostly 'snailfish' were captured on film feeding and interacting in their pitch black secret world - almost 25,000 feet down in the south Pacific. With a transluscent tad-pole like body large heads, small eyes and no scales they are the world's deepest living fish - and the top predator in this mysterious environment. They exist at depths nearly as far down as Mount Everest is high - where the water pressure is equivalent to an elephant standing on your thumb.
Three bizarre fish that live nearly five miles below the surface of the ocean have been discovered by British scientists. The new species of ghostly 'snailfish' were captured on film feeding and interacting in their pitch black secret world - almost 25,000 feet down in the south Pacific. With a transluscent tad-pole like body large heads, small eyes and no scales they are the world's deepest living fish - and the top predator in this mysterious environment. They exist at depths nearly as far down as Mount Everest is high - where the water pressure is equivalent to an elephant standing on your thumb.