Surprisingly Cute

October 7th, 200811:02 am @

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Deepest living fish ever filmed. Story @BBC News… . It’s exciting to me to imagine what we might find in 10, 20 or 50 years… remember that movie “The Abyss”…?!

“The “deepest ever” living fish have been discovered, scientists believe.

A UK-Japan team found the 17-strong shoal at depths of 7.7km (4.8 miles) in the Japan Trench in the Pacific – and captured the deep sea animals on film.

The scientists have been using remote-operated landers designed to withstand immense pressures to comb the world’s deepest depths for marine life.

Monty Priede from the University of Aberdeen said the 30cm-long (12in), deep-sea fish were surprisingly “cute”. “