![]() ![]() Researchers estimate that only 10- 28% of marine life is currently known, and most knowledge stems from researchers based in Europe, the US and Japan. The deep ocean has yet again shown us there is still much to be discovered if we only have the willingness to look.ĭefined as waters below 200 metres, this environment makes up 50% of Earth’s surface. That’s 158 metres deeper than the previous record, also set by a snailfish during an encounter in 2017 in the Marianas Trench, about 2,000km east of the Philippines. Until recently, when Australian and Japanese researchers found one at a record-shattering 8,336 metres in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan. In fact scientists believed it was physiologically impossible for fish to survive conditions below 8,200 metres. ![]() Its name may not hint at extraordinary physical capabilities but the snailfish has broken the record for living at the deepest ocean depths known to humanity. When thinking of animals that live in the most extreme environments on Earth most of us probably don’t think of the snailfish. ![]()
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