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Four Eerie Species of Fish Found at One of the Deepest Places on Earth

Feb. 9, 2013 12:12pm

In just seven days of ocean sampling research near the Kermadec Islands northeast of New Zealand, scientists found several strange-looking species of deep sea fish that were rare, new to science or never before seen in the area.

New Zealand Researchers Find Rare and New Species of Deep Sea Fish Near Kermandec Trench

Holding fish specimens. (Photo: Malcolm Clark/NIWA)

The scientists from University of Aberdeen’s Oceanlab, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa explored the Kermadec Trench, which goes down more than six miles and is one of the deepest places on Earth, according to the university website.

“Between this and the previous expeditions we have now sampled from a depth range greater than Mount Everest is high,” the Oceanlab’s Dr. Alan Jamieson said in a statement to the university. ”What makes the whole experience even more personally satisfying is that all the equipment used in these research cruises was designed and constructed at Oceanlab.”

New Zealand Researchers Find Rare and New Species of Deep Sea Fish Near Kermandec Trench

New deep see cusk eel in New Zealand. (Photo: NIWA/University of Aberdeen)

Here are a few of their discoveries:

  • a new species of eelpout at depths of 4250m
  • new depth records of 5,500m for a rattail fish – these have not previously been caught in the southwest Pacific
  • another rattail fish – in depths of between 2000 and 4500m – that has not been caught in New Zealand waters for over 100 years
  • new depth records of 3500m for  large deep sea cusk eels
New Zealand Researchers Find Rare and New Species of Deep Sea Fish Near Kermandec Trench

Rattail (Photo: NIWA/University of Aberdeen)

New Zealand Researchers Find Rare and New Species of Deep Sea Fish Near Kermandec Trench

New species of eelpout. (Photo: NIWA/University of Aberdeen)

New Zealand Researchers Find Rare and New Species of Deep Sea Fish Near Kermandec Trench

Rare species of rattail not seen in Pacific southwest until this find. (Photo: NIWA/University of Aberdeen)

Researchers also noted the accomplishment of actually being able to conduct sound reviews of what is at deeper parts of the ocean due to new technologies.

New Zealand Researchers Find Rare and New Species of Deep Sea Fish Near Kermandec Trench

Map of the Kermadec Trench (Image: NOAA Ocean Explorer via Wikimedia)

“A voyage such as this is testament to how feasible scientific research in the deep sea has become,” Jamieson said in a statement. ”It is no longer the inaccessible, out of reach, part of the world it once was. The technological challenges of the past are being overcome, and shouldn’t limit our responsibility to learn about and understand the deep sea to help ensure the long term health of the deep oceans – one of the largest environments on Earth.”

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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  • dsind
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:59pm

    Just look at these liberal gods…………………..
    killing shtuff, AND claiming to be saving it?
    This liberal confusion will come to a head when they realize…………………
    less humans is their goal.
    ROTFLMAO

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:11pm

      I’m calling BS on this one….

      When you bring up living creatures that live at that depth and pressure they (kind of) explode at the lack of pressure at sea level.

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    • HappyConservative
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:54pm

      I agree with Monk…WAAAY too much pressure that far down for these creatures to surface looking like that!

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    • dsind
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:10pm

      ditto…monk

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      dsind  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:01pm

      Hi HappyConservative,

      I’ve watched a lot of science shows on the Oceans and whenever they bring something up from those depths they contain it first in a water filled container and maintain the pressure. Those programs have shown what happens when they don’t do that.

      And it’s a mess… not like what these guys are showing.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:44pm

      You guys are hilarious. Fish from the deep do not “explode” under the decompression from the deep to the surface. They simply cannot live in the warmer, less dense, and foreign environment they are being exposed to. It might cause them severe distress as their body decompresses and has to release fluid to compensate (possibly even dehydrating them relative to their normal state) and it can kill them. Some creatures cope with this change quite readily as they make the trek from the deep nightly. Squid, jellies, and numerous fish come from the depths each and every night without the slightest discomfort or explosive decompression.

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    • John.Galt
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:06pm

      LOL, I was thinking that too!

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    • Jake Dog2
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:41pm

      Monk
      I agree I saw the same thing they pressurize the container they keep them in.

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    • KissMyAmericanFlag
      Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:04am

      Grrr. Mutant guppies flushed down-under;-)

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    • valiant1776
      Posted on February 10, 2013 at 2:04am

      So, Who’s going to eat the first one?

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    • Billdoor
      Posted on February 10, 2013 at 11:24pm

      You guys are up in the night. Water doesn’t compress like gas. There is no explosive decompression. Expanding dissolved gas in the blood and organs could kill, but at the speed they would ascend, that is all that would happen.
      I’ve been teaching diving for 20 years. Go read a book.

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    • CoGod
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 1:07pm

      Many here do not deep sea fish. No air-bladder, no problem. Many fish can come from extreme depth without exploding. Water 99% of their makeup is non-compressible.

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    • munacra
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 4:36pm

      Gasses such as OXYGEN and NITROGEN are highly compressed at the depth these fish were apparently captured. Pulling them up quickly without some sort of containment device and reducing the ambient pressure quickly as they are rising will allow these dissolved and compressed gasses through the animals body to expand quickly forming bubbles throughout the body, thereby quickly killing the creature. These bubbles will form throughout the body from the brain to the tail. The fish would be highly deformed. I have pulled a fish up swiftly from 60 feet of depth and the stomach and air bladder would be outside of the fishes mouth from expansion.

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    • Cesium
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 6:41pm

      Since MONK and HAPPYCONSERVATIVE are expert marine biologists, they are probably right and this article is BS. Good thing for you guys to subjugate these so called “scientists” pfffttttt…. What do they know..!?! obviously too dumb to consider the pressures and depth involved and related that to the species. I doubt DNA tests will come into play either. They probably don’t even know what DNA is!

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  • Jake Dog2
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:36pm

    Just wait tell BIG DADDY come up to get his kid .CHOMP CHOMP. By by researchers

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    • bigdaddyt46
      Posted on February 10, 2013 at 5:15am

      naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwww not hungry right now. besides lib researchers gives me gas

      **snicker**

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  • toiletclogga
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:13pm

    Bread ‘em, batter ‘em and fry ‘em!

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    • SUNTZU
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:23pm

      McDonalds have been serving these
      for years
      Remember what Sandra Fluck says
      If it smells like fish,
      eat it.

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      SUNTZU  
  • The_Fifth_Column
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 6:02pm

    Get out the deep fryer. Yum, yum!

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    The_Fifth_Column  
  • JBaer
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:39pm

    A face only a mother could love??

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    JBaer  
    • Apexduck
      Posted on February 11, 2013 at 8:40pm

      Wow , here I thought is was another story about Nancy P. when I first saw the pictures!

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  • ThomasUSA
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 3:24pm

    None of you should be surprised this what Dori, Marlin and Nemo look like with out make-up ? Plus they’ve put on a few years and lbs….

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  • mrja
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 3:16pm

    ok they found some fish…….but is there any oil down there???

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    mrja  
  • TRUTHandFREEDOM
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 3:06pm

    How do they live?! Al Gore says it’s Miiilyons of degrees down there!

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  • DexterMorgan
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:58pm

    How long before we have the “brights” screaming these fish prove evolution?

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  • jeffreyzenker
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:52pm

    Mmmmm. It’s fish fry time. The ugliest fish always taste the best.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:35pm

    There is some really unusual stuff when you get into the deep ocean. Here’s the proof.

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  • lassiegirldawn
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:24pm

    Are they really new varieties or has Fukushima tainted all of the oceans? They still have over 100,000 gallons of radiated water flowing into the ocean each day since the explosion.

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    lassiegirldawn  
  • AmericaMustBeFree
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:06pm

    I just want to know why if they are rare why they are being caught and taken out of the water?? I think you could learn a whole lot more about them living than dead!

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    AmericaMustBeFree  
    • LeadNotFollow
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:30pm

      That’s the way the backward liberal mind works.
      Those nuts truly believe they are saving the planet.
      They think God’s rare creatures must be snatched from their natural habitat, murdered, then studied.

      That’s why Big Foot, Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, and Space Aliens, stay as far away from liberals as they can get. (laugh)

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    • snufy
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:16pm

      Well dummie, do you have any idea in hell what the sea pressure is at that depth? How about if you volunteer to snorkel down that deep and have a look at the fish, there…

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      snufy  
    • MisterSarcastic
      Posted on February 10, 2013 at 6:33am

      Sea pressure is about 600 pounds per sq. inch at 1300 ft.

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    • Keatonc333
      Posted on February 10, 2013 at 3:38pm

      we dont have the technology to for extended stays miles under the sea yet.

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  • Keatonc333
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:51pm

    Too cool! i love these kind of stories and just the overall mystery of the oceans deep! did you guys know only 1% of the deep ocean floor has been explored! who knows what else is down there! we know more about the the surfaces of the moon and mars than we do our own ocean floor!

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  • NLenz
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:30pm

    You know, the parents of those critters are going to be mightily teed off when they find them gone…just like Cloverfield.

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  • Small World
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:17pm

    Look like they came from Japans nuck disaster.

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    • rvsample
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:48pm

      could be. the nipponese have been using the depths of the pacific as their own toxic waste dump for decades.

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    • GuruMeditation
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 3:44pm

      Yeah, kinda… or like them spent their youth in an oil slick.

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      GuruMeditation  
  • justangry
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:07pm

    If I caught something that looked like Diane Feinstein, I’d throw it back.

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  • watashbuddyfriend
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:56pm

    Surely, these will be used to find out a medical benefit? Like ALL discoveries by mankind of the things God has made available.

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    • Witness1974
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:01pm

      That’s the first thing I thought when I saw them. I wish more people appreciated the miracles of “ordinary” creation. Who knows what blessings they might bring.

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      Witness1974  
  • TotallyNotATroll
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:52pm

    That’s not an eelpout, it’s a tadpole. Just wait til it matures…

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  • battles
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:48pm

    Surprising that the government didn’t quarantine these fish and men for months, just like they did with the astronauts when they brought rocks back from the moon.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:47pm

    At the least we know what part of the oceanic depths Michael Moore came from.

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  • DonaldH
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:38pm

    They taste like chicken

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    DonaldH  
  • LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:23pm

    What did the blind man say when he walked into the fish market on the San Francisco Bay?

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    LEFTIST_CLOWNS_AND_FAR_RIGHT_JOKERS  
  • Jedrin
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:20pm

    Al Gore already knew all this. I guess no one bothered to ask him about fish.

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  • OldSurfRat
    Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:18pm

    “Fish found in the deepest places on earth”
    They found these in Mitchell’s backside?

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    OldSurfRat  
    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:55pm

      OLDSURFRAT, LOL. Actually they are pulling our collective leg. Those are robots for an upcoming Disney movie.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:56pm

      Should have said “animatronic critters” not really robots.

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      RJJinGadsden  
    • AmericaMustBeFree
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:04pm

      Your not even the least bit funny. Ignorant possibly, but funny not hardly!

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:45pm

      AMERICA…

      “Your not even the least bit funny. Ignorant possibly, but funny not hardly!”

      lol… if YOU’RE going to call someone ignorant, at least have the decency to get your grammar and punctuation correct.

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