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Never-before-seen ghost-like fish found in Pacific Ocean

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Elusive fish captured on video
Elusive fish captured on video – Jul 5, 2016

An elusive eel-like fish that has never before been seen alive, has finally been captured on film.

“This is just remarkable,” said Bruce Mundy, a fishery biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service said while watching a live video of the fish.

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The fish belongs to the order of Ophidiiformes, but to the family of Aphyonidae. Experts say that a fish of that family has never been seen alive.

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The ghost-like fish has gelatinous, scale-free skin and pale eyes.

The discovery was made by NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer, an underwater expedition to the Marianas Trench, the deepest area of the Pacific Ocean.

A similar ghost-like octopus was found off the coast of Hawaii in March by the same expedition.

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