They’re strange looking relatives of sharks and rays, they’re elusive and live 2600 meters or more below the surface, and they have retractable sex organs on their foreheads.
They’re Chimaeras, or ghost sharks or pointy-nosed blue ratfish, and they’ve never been captured on video before 2016, when a remotely operated vehicle deployed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute caught this swim-by on camera.
via Neatorama
January 10, 2017