![]() ![]() ![]() "This is a unique and never-before-seen thing," Pietsch says in a press release. Identified as Caulophryne jordani, there are 14 female specimens of this fish preserved in natural history collections worldwide, but a live male has never been seen. The video, which is part of 25 minutes of total footage, shows a floating fist-size anglerfish surrounded by a wispy cloud of whisker-like fin-rays, or filaments, each emitting bioluminescent light. More than a year later, the rare footage has been released to the public. After wildlife photographers Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen captured footage of this fish in August 2016 at the tail end of a five-hour excursion on a deep-sea submersible near Portugal's São Jorge Island, they showed the clip to Ted Pietsch, a University of Washington professor emeritus of the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. If you look closely, you can see a tiny male hanging from her belly as a "sexual parasite." (Read: " Anglerfish, Taking Romantic Attachment to a Whole New Level")īecause of the intense underwater environment anglerfishes live in, the mysterious deep-sea dwellers have rarely been seen alive in their natural habitat. In a rare video, captured by the science-focused Rebikoff-Niggeler Foundation and first released as a Science Magazine exclusive, a female fanfin sea devil slowly pitches back and forth in the inky, cold waters 2,600 feet under the surface of the North Atlantic. ![]() Something fishy is happening thousands of feet under the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean. ![]()
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