Faceless Fish Found After Not Being Seen for a Century

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A faceless fish, Typhlonus nasus, a type of cusk eel has been found off of Australia. It lives between 13,000-16,500 feet below the sea surface. It hasn’t been seen (or hauled up by a net specifically) in over a century. Other organisms new to science have been found on this Australian survey to the abyssal plain (deep-sea) as well as an “amazing” quantity of trash.

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