Here are some of the deep-sea animals that we do know something about. The pelican eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides) is a type of gulper eel that uses its large, pelican-like mouth to gulp up its prey.
As it turns out, they were both wildly wrong. The creature lying on the sand was an oarfish: an eel-shaped deep-sea marine creature also known as the “doomsday fish” in Japanese folklore.
RAUSU, Hokkaido--Aside from its slimy feel, a type of conger eel called “kurohamo” doesn’t win any prizes in the looks department. Fishermen rarely found any use for the deep-sea fish when ...
The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme ...