I just wish the reporter hadn’t donned that silly wetsuit and snorkel for the presentation. As somebody who has worn a wetsuit on dry land prepping for a dive, I feel REALLY bad for her under those studio lights. Also I would NOT want to smell her dressing room after she peeled out of that thing! If she was dry getting into it, she will be wet getting out!
Oarfish are some of those rarely-seen pelagic fish that likely spawned lots of sea serpent legends.
BTW that fish eye is most likely a swordfish IIRC we covered it on this blog when it first washed up, and I think they did DNA testing on it. Also I suspect a quick look at the remaining skin from around the eye would quickly say if it was a fish or a mollusk.
pretty sure that frilled shark died shortly after being filmed, too. they didn’t research this presentation particularly well.
It did. It was towed up by a Japanese fisherman and kept alive long enough to be filmed at the aquarium.
It’s really hard to keep a deep-sea creature alive at the surface, especially if it has spent any time at surface pressures.