Recently, scientists have discovered a new deep-sea fish in the deep sea of the Indian Ocean in western Australia, with a small body of dark translucent, no scales covering it like a group of moving "jelly", once it leaves the deep sea of high pressure and low temperature, it will become very fragile, and if it is brought to the surface of the water, it will even "melt rapidly".
According to the Daily Mail, the research, sponsored by Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and conducted by minderoo University of Western Australia Deep Sea Research Centre, has been working for years to explore the mysteries of the deep sea and has finally caught this new fish in the Indian Ocean.
This fish belongs to the Liparidae family, tentatively named Snailfish, which can live on the seabed at depths of 6500 to 7500 meters, and are quite active even in the extreme cold and high-pressure deep sea, without even any predators or competitors posing a threat to them.
Since no other fish will reach the same depth of water, this lionfish has no natural enemies and can be said to be the overlord of the trench, but from the outside, the lionfish is quite gentle and cute, "the hardest thing in the whole body is the bones of the inner ear, which is used to balance the body", once it leaves the deep sea of high pressure and low temperature, it will become very fragile, and if it is brought to the surface of the water, it will even "quickly melt into a sticky mass".
In 2018, scientists discovered its close relative, the Atacama Snailfish, in the Atacama Trench, whose body is equally small, but translucent, and covered with no scales, and which can become a sticky mass when it leaves the water.
The Atacama Trench, located 160 kilometers west of Peru and Chile, has a total length of about 5,900 kilometers, and its deepest point is the "Richards Deep" (Richards Deep) 8065 meters below sea level; although the living environment is harsh, there are still many undersea creatures inhabiting it, including many mysterious deep-sea fish species, and the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom has conducted 250 submersible missions in the Atacama Trench. After shooting more than 100 hours and more than 10,000 photos, we discovered 3 new species of fish that resemble jelly. #多样世界生生不息 #
