And according to scientists, this species isn't even meant to be a deep sea fish.

Imagine being five miles below the surface of the ocean and seeing this little guy, a snailfish.

Snail fish are great. Snail fish are amazing because they are not a deep-sea fish.

So they're the deepest fish in the world, but they're not a deep-sea fish.

The family is called Liparidae and they are 300 species at least of snailfish.

Most of them are very, very shallow.

Most snailfish may live in shallow water.

But when researchers from the University of Western Australia and the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology recorded and caught this fish in August 2022, the snailfish was 27,349 ft down.

So these ones that you see in the video are 1000 meters deeper than what you would normally think of as being a deep-sea fish.

So I love the fact that they're kind of small and goofy and barn and just not being very deep sea yet, at the same time, they're way more deep sea than most deep sea fish.

For ten years, this team has been studying the deepest fish in the world.

Professor Jamison doesn't believe their new record will be beaten.

And if it is, it won't be by much.

It becomes trivial. Now, I don't think there's any way in which we find a fish 1000 m deep or even, even, even, maybe 100 meters deep.

So we're confident now that we've really fully understood this.

The depths of the ocean have a bad rap.

According to Professor Jamieson, they'll still tell you that the deep sea is this cold, dark alien place full of monsters.

And therefore we don't appreciate the fact that it is fundamentally most of planet Earth and the resources should be put into understanding it and trying to work out how we're affecting it and how it works.

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