A team of marine biologists from Aberdeen, New Zealand and Tokyo discovered a crazy looking fish while on an expedition to the Peru-Chile trench, one of the world's deepest ocean trenches, last week.
The snailfish was living at 7,000 meters deep, and was caught on film for the first time.
They found a number of other crustacean-esque species while on this three week scavenger hunt, in which they didn't expect to find anything seeing as how they didn't think the waters were inhabited by any fish at all.
I love things like this!
Picture of the snailfish: http://conservationreport.com/2010/10/18/new-species-of-snailfish-discovered-in-one-of-the-world’s-deepest-ocean-trenches/
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