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Scientists Find Weird Fish at Deepest Depth Ever Recorded

LOWEST OF THE LOW

The snailfish was seen swimming over five miles below the surface.

A snailfish filmed at over 5 miles underwater—the deepest fish ever recorded.
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Scientists found a fish swimming at the deepest depth ever recorded during a study of marine life in underwater trenches off Japan. A camera sent down into the Izu-Ogasawara trench south of Japan filmed a snailfish 27,350 feet—over five miles—beneath the waves.

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