Meet the 'world's deepest fish', a ghoulish-looking creature that thrives in bone-crushing depths.
ever recorded have been caught — and caught on camera — miles beneath the surface of the north Pacific Ocean.
The record-breaking discovery was part of a decadelong study into the world’s deepest fish populations that was carried out by the University of Western Australia and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. “In other trenches such as the Mariana Trench, we were finding them at increasingly deeper depths just creeping over that 8,000m mark in fewer and fewer numbers, but around Japan they are really quite abundant,” Jamieson said.said. In previous expeditions, the snailfish has only ever been seen at a depth of 25,272 feet in 2008, it added.
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