Deep beneath the waters of Monterey Bay, researchers in California have filmed an extremely rare deep-sea fish.
), and of all the deep-sea dragonfish in Monterey Bay, this is one of the rarest.
"In more than three decades of deep-sea research and more than 27,600 hours of video, we've only seen this particular species four times!" researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recentlyThe individual was caught on camera during a recent expedition on MBARI's, which is a large ship set up to deploy and control remotely operated vehicles as they dive thousands of kilometers under the sea.
In this case, the footage was taken at a depth of nearly 300 meters , and by the looks of things, the dragonfish was headed even deeper., as you can see from the MBARI footage, but when they are hunting, they hide quietly in the dark and wait. While the highfin dragonfish is covered in an iridescent cloak of bronze scales, other species are not so colorful. In fact, dragonfish can be pigmented with some of the blackest blacks found in nature.
With a smile full of sharp teeth, these predators must look downright terrifying to smaller fish and crustaceans, as they emerge from the deep dark to engulf their prey.
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