PERTH: Sharp teeth, fangs and a potential sting in the tail – researchers have discovered terrifying new species of fish lurking below the surface at our most popular beaches.
The photographs were taken by scientists with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) on a research voyage off the coast of Sydney in NSW.
Some of the species included in the grizzly snaps are the scaleless blackfish – a tiny fanged creature, the eel-like idiacanthidae and the nightmare-inducing chauliodontidae with its comparatively massive front teeth.
Chief scientist for the voyage, UNSW marine biologist Professor Iain Suthers, said he was amazed they were able to find so many on the tiny critters and the discovery will now change how researchers study juvenile fish.
‘We had thought fish only developed in coastal estuaries, and that once larvae were swept out to sea that was end of them,’ Professor Suthers said.
The quartet of ‘hotheads’ were located about 200 kilometres off the coast of Sydney, thanks to the new ocean explorer being used by the CSIRO.
The discovery of the 50-million-year-old volcanoes was made more amazing by the fact they weren’t even being looked for.
‘Our new ocean explorer, RV Investigator, has discovered four extinct volcanoes 200 kilometres off the coast of Sydney, hidden under almost five kilometres of ocean,’ a CSIRO spokesman.
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