A team of scientists has shared mesmerizing footage from a month-long exploration into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Among the scenes is a transparent-headed fish so alien that it looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie.<\/p>\n
The species in question is the elusive barreleye fish \u2013 a type of spookfish that, until now, had never been seen photographed in the wild.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n An absolute rarity of nature, it has a completely transparent, fluid-filled dome on its head protecting its eyes, which, to the layman eye, makes it seem like you\u2019re looking at the fish\u2019s brain.<\/p>\n ABOVE: The alien-esque spookfish can be seen at 2:06-2:08<\/p>\n Marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, led by Dr Aaron Micallef, spotted the ghostly being at a depth of 2,329ft (710m) in a region of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Doldrums Fracture Zone<\/a>.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n This is an extensive system of cracks and fault lines on the seafloor (13,000ft \/ 4,000m) roughly the size of Lake Michigan, around 800 miles off the northeast coast of Brazil.<\/p>\n Tectonic plates violently grind past one another, sculpting dramatic seascapes like sedimented basins that can house chemically altered waters responsible for unique deep-sea ecosystems.<\/p>\n ABOVE: See the fascinating deep ocean vents discovered by the researchers <\/p>\n “This discovery shows why exploration still matters,” Dr Micallef told the Schmidt Ocean Institute<\/a>. “Even in the Atlantic Ocean, where plate boundaries have been studied for decades, there are still places where the first close look can reveal something entirely new.”<\/p>\n Dr Micallef\u2019s crew, who operated a remote-controlled submarine called SuBastian<\/a> from the surface, made more otherworldly discoveries.<\/p>\n Thanks to Substian\u2019s 4K camera, they also bagged footage of a pair of beautiful and also never-before-seen thermal vents spewing life-creating materials into the ocean.<\/p>\n You might also like\u2026<\/p>\n Make your own underwater discoveries with the best waterproof cameras<\/a> and the best underwater housings for your camera<\/a>, along with the best underwater drones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team of scientists has shared mesmerizing footage from a month-long exploration into the depths of the Atlantic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-793111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}