The bottom of the Atacama Trench is totally devoid of light , just over 1 ° deoxycytidine monophosphate ( 34 ° F ) , and has thousands of meters of water weighing down on top of it . It ’s no surprisal that this outlander - alike surround is dwelling house to some genuinely exotic - like creature .
An outside squad of scientist from 17 unlike nations has recently document three new species of deep - sea fish , all belonging to the snailfish family , populate in the sorry depths of the Atacama Trench , an oceanic oceanic abyss off the coast of Peru and Chile . For now , the Pisces have temporarily been named the pink Atacama snailfish , the blue Atacama snailfish , and the purplish Atacama snailfish . Catchy , eh ?
unbelievable footage ( below ) from the depth of the trench shows a gang of ghost - like snailfish feeding on bait , alongside some creepy-crawly long - legged isopods , known as munnopsids .
“ There is something about the snailfish ( Pisces of the kinsfolk Liparidae ) that allows them to adapt to living very deep . Beyond the reach of other Pisces they are complimentary of competitors and predators , ” Dr Thomas Linley , an expert on deep - ocean fish from Newcastle University , enjoin in astatement .
“ Their jellylike structure means they are perfectly adapted to living at extreme atmospheric pressure and in fact the hardest structures in their body are the bones in their internal pinna which give them balance and their teeth . Without the extreme pressure and cold to support their bodies they are extremely thin and melt chop-chop when brought to the surface .
“ As the footage clear register , there are lots of invertebrate prey down there and the snailfish are the top predator , they seem to be quite combat-ready and expect very well - fed . "
The mysterious - sea oddities were discovered using a submersible lander armed with HD tv camera and some bait . To give you some perspective of how deep these thing go , it takes up to four hours for the team ’s tv camera to free fall to the seafloor , which is close to 11,000 meters ( 36,000 feet ) deep in some areas . They then expect over 12 hours for the locals to take bill and gather .
Most remarkable of all , the team managed to capture a specimen and bring it back to the Earth’s surface . Since the fish are almost jelly - similar and lack any innate structural support , theytend to “ blob out”when you bring them up to lower pressures at the water ’s surface . Fortunately , the team ’s catch managed to remain in an impressively fit res publica . With the help of the Natural History Museum in London , the researchers have maintain the sea snail and are now in the process of describing it scientifically .
We know laughably little about the world ’s sea . Despite covering over 70 percent of the world , up to80 percentof the sea remains totally unmapped , unseen , and unexplored . As this new find tells us , it ’s far from a dismal , barren waste .
