Cute or creepy?

Transparent eels and fanged fish: 10 deep-sea monsters captured in a new expedition

It's weird down there!

by Jennifer Walter
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Up close portrait of a flatfish, which is round and boasts two eyes on the same side of its head and...
Museums Victoria/Ben Healley

Museums Victoria Research Institute

Deep below the surface of the Indian Ocean, this patch of seabed teems with life.

Museums Victoria Research Institute

Translucent eels, fanged fish, and other peculiar creatures wriggle between corals and rock formations off the coast of Australia’s Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

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