World's deepest fish found near Japan
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Scientists have spotted the deepest-ever fish near Japan, setting a new record. The snailfish was swimming at a depth of 8,336 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara trench, in the western Pacific Ocean, south of Japan. The discovery came from the footage filmed in September 2022 by sea robots that have been probing the oceanic trenches. Snailfish belong to the Liparidae family. Currently, there are over 400 known species of snailfish.
