Fish discovered at new record depth of 8km in Pacific

[muriel_volestrangler]

A new record has been set for the world's deepest fish.

The bizarre-looking snailfish, which is new to science, was filmed 8,145m beneath the waves, beating the previous depth record by nearly 500m.

It can be seen 1 minute and 45 seconds into this video, among swarms of smaller, shrimp-like amphipods.
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Also caught on camera are a scavenging rat-tail (00:00), a large cusk eel (00:43) and huge crustaceans called "supergiants" (00:51).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30543122

[Feral Child]

1. Fascinating, muriel

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[Mnemosyne]

2. The critters sure like the pole filming them. nt

[progressoid]

3. Well, we will be eating those soon.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120920-are-we-running-out-of-fish

[Warpy]

4. I like the one eyeless fish trying to take a bite, then retreating with an obvious "yuck!!"

It's amazing how the end of the pole was swarmed by the shrimplike critters. The story failed to mention whether or not it had been baited, it looked like it had been.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Yes it was baited

You can see it more clearly in a still in this article:

The team thought they had broken the deepest-fish record, but then another pale pink species came to feed at the lander, which is loaded with bait, even further down at 8,145m.
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These creatures are a type of amphipod, which are normally around 2-3cm long. The super-sized version can reach up to 30cm.

Dr Jamieson said: "We've got more than 20 hours of footage of them, and we're learning the way they swim, the way they feed and the way they fend off predators.

"They clamp down on the bait, and bore their head into it and put their spiky tail in the air like a thorn bush.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30541065