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Deepest fish ever
April 15 , 2023
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- Scientists have captured footage of a fish swimming more than 8 km underwater.
- This setting is a new record for the deepest fish ever recorded.
- The animal is an unknown snailfish species belonging to the genus Pseudoliparis.
- It was filmed at a depth of 8,336 metres in the Izu-Ogasawara trench, south-east of Japan.
- Scientists also caught two other snailfish, of the species Pseudoliparis belyaevi, in the Japan trench from a depth of 8,022 metres.
- At 8,000 metres underwater, the pressure is 800 times greater than at the ocean surface.
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