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A deep-sea fish species with unusual cheek patterns has been discovered in the South China Sea after it was listed on online seafood markets.. The fish has been named Branchiostegus sanae because ...
The luminescence comes from symbiotic bacteria, which are thought to be acquired from seawater, [2] [3] that dwell in and around the sea. Some anglerfish are notable for extreme sexual dimorphism and sexual symbiosis of the small male with the much larger female, seen in the suborder Ceratioidei , the deep sea anglerfish.
Milky sea effect off the coast of Somalia in the Indian Ocean. Milky seas, sometimes confused with mareel, are a luminous phenomenon in the ocean in which large areas of seawater (up to 100,000 km 2 or 39,000 sq mi [1]) appear to glow diffusely and continuously (in varying shades of blue).
Although many planktonic organisms are bioluminescent, pyrosome bioluminescence is unusual in its brilliance and sustained light emission, [10] and evoked the following comment when seen by the eminent scientist Thomas Huxley at sea:
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They likely didn't expect to see this creature swimming by. The Ocean Exploration Trust uploaded this video to YouTube in June, and according to the Bizarre jellyfish-like creature discovered
The “marvelous creature” was seen making “abstract shapes” with its ink in the Pacific Ocean, researchers said. ‘Rarely seen’ deep-sea creature with ‘long, sticky tentacles’ caught ...
On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, [4] but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the fish caught.