A fish from the sea slug family was captured on video at a record depth of 8336 m by a group of scientists from Australia and Japan. About it reported press office of the University of Western Australia, which participated in the study.
So the record was updated in 2017, then the sea slug was filmed at a depth of 8178 m in the Mariana Trench.
In the fall of 2022, scientists from the University of Western Australia and Tokyo Oceanographic University set out on an expedition. The team, using deep-sea submersibles, studied fish populations in two trenches off the coast of Japan in the Pacific Ocean – Ryukyu and Izu-Ogasawara.
In the Izu-Ogasawara trench south of Japan, a Pseudoliparis fish was photographed at a record depth. Unlike other deep-sea fish, juvenile sea slugs live at greater depths than adults.
University of Western Australia professor Alan Jamison noted that in the Mariana Trench at a depth of more than 8 thousand meters, sea slug is rare, but in the trenches off the coast of Japan at the same depth they can be found more often.
Earlier it was reported that a giant jellyfish was spotted in Antarctica. Outwardly, the jellyfish looks like a huge hat, from which an elegant scarf stretches, but these are tentacles 10 meters long.
