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New fish species found deep below ocean surface
The ghostly white snailfish was found September 10 in the South Pacific.
Scientists have discovered a new species of fish living almost 4 1/2 miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
The ghostly white snailfish was found September 10 in the Peru-Chile trench in the South Pacific by an international team of marine biologists led by Alan Jamieson of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. The scientists also found cusk-eels and crustaceans living in the trench off the west coast of South America. Those creatures had never before been observed at such depths, where sunlight never penetrates and water pressure is almost 10,000 pounds per square inch.
“Our findings, which revealed diverse and abundant species at depths previously thought to be void of fish, will prompt a rethink into marine populations at extreme depths,” said Jamieson, who led researchers from Japan and New Zealand in the project.
The researchers discovered the creatures during a three-week expedition during which they took more than 6,000 images at depths between 4,500 and 8,000 meters (15,000 to 26,000 feet).
The most recent mission – August 31 to September 20 - was the seventh in three years by a collaborative research project among the University of Aberdeen’s Oceanlab, the University of Tokyo’s Ocean Research Institute and New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research.
Previous expeditions had identified another species of snailfish in deep-sea trenches off Japan and New Zealand.
Scientists found large shrimp-like crustacean scavengers in abundance.
“To test whether these species would be found in all trenches, we repeated our experiments on the other side of the Pacific Ocean off Peru and Chile, some 6,000 miles from our last observations,” Jamieson said. “What we found was that indeed there was another unique species of snailfish living at 7,000 meters — entirely new to science, which had never been caught or seen before.”
Jamieson said scientists also observed cusk-eels in a “feeding frenzy that last 22 hours” and large shrimp-like crustacean scavengers in abundance in the trench.
“It begs the question of why and how they can live so deep in this trench but not in any other,” said Niamh Kilgallen, an expert on the creatures at the New Zealand institute.
“These findings prompt a re-evaluation of the diversity and abundance of life at extreme depths," Jamieson said.
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omg fishdat i made that up
omg ,fishdat i made that up.
Jack, you're great! ss
lol im in 8th grade and i take an interest in this "new" species i mean really its not a new species its been here for millions of years its just evolved just lik we did. but still it is interesting that peolpe are finding "new" things n the ocean 🙂
Shrimp needs to be chilled. Yummy.
so thats where the sperm went
How large is it?
Amazing find. Interesting that it has eyes, although it never sees light. I hope that the light from the camera doesn't hurt it.
I'll just go over the Hudson River to Jersey and buy my weed there. Plenty of it. 😀
@Gumby:- Do you have beef with Religious people? Well, I am not Religious, I am just a Christian who knows that God made everything and they are diverse and beautiful.
What happens is that people who do not want to be accountable for their lives try to find a reason to believe that they came by chance. But it doesn't change anything, God made everything. Science does not disprove God or His existence as the facts tell us. People just try to no avail. God is.
I think you mean you "believe", not "know". If you you do know, then tell us about it, you are the first human to know.....
"people who do not want to be accountable for their lives" Wasn't it the Bible that presented the concept of being born into sin? That said, maybe god did make everything, and evolution is his science experiment. Think about it. A great cosmic creator that, through trial and error, is attempting to create a perfect universe. Just a thought.
I saw a great cartoon featuring God on "Larry King Live". Larry says "So which is it? Evolution or Intelligent Design?" God smiles and answers "Yes."
Bob...and how does your comment pertain to the subject of the article?
That is the dumbest cartoon I've ever heard.
Wicked lookin' fish, right!
I agree with you Bob
God smiles because God made them all.
Bob
I'm not sure how your comment is relevant to this article, but it's a good comment. No one said Creation and Evolution had to be exclusive? What's wrong with God using evolution in the process?
Nice delusion, but....
I wonder what it tastes like
which god?
Your right bro!
Nothing comes from nothing......nothing ever will.......!
If athiests are supposed to be so confident and spiritually, I wonder why they usually come across and insecure and tormented. Can someone answer that? Go be free NOT preaching the gospel. The way that you're behaving, you're still enslaved to religion whether you realize or not.
So where did nothing come from? All the "nothing" that everything is located in. God came from?
Lean – Atheists aren't supposed to be spiritual (Duh!) and leave it to someone that is a slave to religion to claim that other people are (rolls eyes).
me like to eat it!
thats the best answer i heard yet
wow Bob, that sound like a really dumb cartoon. Firstly, God never seems to actually talk to anyone, and are you implying he would go on Larry King Live? I don't follow the logic here. Furthermore, I love how the religious now claim that "god works through evolution" now that everyone knows evolution to be an undisputed fact. A bit hypocritical dont you think, when just a few years ago all of your kind were screaming "I AM NOT A MONKEY!!" and the like. It's very telling that you bandwagon riders are all jumping onto evolution now.
Why is it every time a new scientific event happens some religious freak shows up and tries to accommodate their childish fantasies with the real world?
Remember when the Earth was flat in the eyes of God, remember when fire was magic in the eyes of God, remember when the Sun revolved around the Earth in the eyes of God.
Give it up; your religion is a man made thing like Star Wars and Jurassic Park.
joto
Why would anyone ask a god a question they could not answer?
Atheists believe there is no God, but they still try to be good...Therefore, they are indeed, Good for nothing.
I wonder how many creatures were crushed before 'nature' got it right?
Thankfully they weren't looking for this fish in the Gulf of Mexico!!!
@CLTStraightGuy – I'd rather do good for nothing then to good for rewards/punishment by a diety
Since when has Evolution been proven an undisputed fact? Ben you are proof that if evolution is true it goes backwards as well.
FEL121- . As long as you choose the proper coordinate system, it's trivial to show the Sun revolving around Earth. Everything is relative in space. Earth only revolves around the Sun from the perspective of someone standing on Earth. And if you really want to get technical about it, The Sun and its planets are all revolving around the center of mass of the system. But even that is based on which coordinate system one chooses, and ignores everything else in the Universe. So if you're going to lecture, get it right.
Coordinates ... the Earth in fact revolves around our Sun regardless of a viewers relative location, it's a gravitational fact. The earth also revolves around the center of the Milkyway "while" it orbits our sun. Fel121 has it correct and the rest of what you explained here is something most middle schoolers already know & is not anything new.
I fail to see how your comment is relevant to the article. Quite being a moron.
720 atmospheres of pressure. Most of us cannot get off the couch with 1 atmosphere of pressure.
"Stupid Comments" – Your comment fits your name. Moron comes from the Greek word moros. Jesus used the word "moros" meaning "foolish" to describe an unbeliever "who builds his house on the sand." Also, Paul describes those like you who "claim they are wise men, the more foolish they became". Thus the word "moron" is translated from Greek as foolish UNBELIEVER. Who's the moron now?
fishy needs a tan...
He can't afford it now the taxes have gone up as the first step of obamacare
What do you think? Maybe nightcrawlers...or how about mealworms? Probably wouldn't take a cricket.
Muddler minnow. I always do well with a Muddler.
@Joey ultralol
i*t would go nuts for a carolina rig
chicken livers. I always get something with chicken livers lol I got an enormous catfish once with a chiken liver and worm on the same hook. But seriously, there's something about the way everything likes chicken. It'd be a good try
MYBE THEY WILL FIND JIMMY HOFFA DOWN THERE....
How would Jimmy Hoffa breathe at that depth?
he wouldn't. that's kinda the point.
Obviously they developed after G.W. Bush left office, because according to the Sierra Club, he poisoned the waters.