Scientists have filmed a snailfish five miles underwater in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan.
Scientists have filmed a snailfish five miles underwater in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan. It is the deepest fish ever recorded.
“We have spent over 15 years researching these deep snailfish,” Alan Jamieson, head of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, said in a statement. “There is so much more to them than simply the depth, but the maximum depth they can survive is truly astonishing.”
In September, Jamieson and colleagues from the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology set off on a two-month research expedition of the Izu-Ogasawara and Ryukyu trenches near Japan, part of a 10-year study into fish that can survive at extreme depths.
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Image: A snailfish discovered five miles beneath the ocean surface. (Credit: MINDEROO-UWA DEEP-SEA RESEARCH CENTRE via Yale Environment 360)
