Deepest Fish On Film
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By , on November 15th, 2009 5 comments   Fish, Organisms, Pictures and Movies   , , , , , , ,  

In 2008 we reported on the 7700 meter record for filming fish, video above, Using a remote lander, a group filmed Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a deep-water snailfish, found only in the Northwest Pacific between 6.1km to 7.5km deep. Now this same group filmed swarms of the snailfish Notoliparis kermadecensis nibbling at bait 7560 meters, the . . . → Read More: Deepest Fish On Film

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The Deepest Crinoids
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By , on July 14th, 2009 3 comments   New Research, Organisms   , , , , , , ,  

Japanese researchers recently set a record with the deepest in-situ observation of a criniod. In the words of the authors, Previous records of stalked crinoids from hadal depths (exceeding 6000 m) are extremely rare, and no in-situ information has been available. We show here that stalked crinoids live densely on rocky substrates at depths . . . → Read More: The Deepest Crinoids

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