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.
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.
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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