Tuesday 5 July 2022 08:03 PM Scientists find rarely-seen, transparent fish and giant sea spider on deep sea ... trends now
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Scientists have spotted a rare, see-through fish and a giant sea spider in waters off of Alaska.
The transparent fish is known as a blotched snailfish and its technical name is Crystallichthys cyclospilus.
It certainly has a bizarre appearance - with a reddish toned transparent body that allows it to hide itself easily in the darkened ocean depths that rarely see sunlight.
'Been hoping to see one of these in person for a long time!' tweeted Sarah Friedman, a fish biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
'Been hoping to see one of these in person for a long time!' tweeted Sarah Friedman, a fish biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with the snailfish pictured above
Friedman and her team saw the fish during a survey that NOAA conducts in the Aleutian Islands off of Alaska each year.
'We found four or five so far, in the couple of weeks we've been out,' Friedman told Mashable.
However, the average person is unlikely to ever see this particular fish.
'They’re found around 100 to 200 meters down. So I would say your general everyday person is never going to encounter one of these fish,' she explained.
Her team also saw a large, orange-colored sea spider with legs that look like stilts, known as Colossendeis.
