There is still a pot we do n’t roll in the hay about down in the depth of the ocean . The canon and volcanoes enshroud in eternal iniquity still harbour unnamed metal money , perchance including anentirely new specie of whale . But even the species we do know about , we have little knowledge of their aliveness and behavior .

These include the unknown looking ghost sharks , or chimera , that call the ocean mysterious home . nearly related to sharks and electron beam , ghost shark are an ancient group of Pisces that divide from their gristly brethren nearly 400 million age ago and have remained isolate at depths of up to 2,600 meters ( 8,500 feet ) ever since .

Despite their long evolutionary history , with over 50 species having been described , still so small is sleep together about them . Now researcher have filmed one specie , the pointy - nosed spicy chimera ( Hydrolagus trolli),for the first timeas it glide through the shadow . The footage was actually a glad chance event , as geologists send a remotely run rover down to 6,700 feet off the coast of California and Hawaii .

Initially believing that it may have been a new species of Chimaera , it was only until it landed on the screen of a ghost Pisces expert that it was identified as belonging to the pointy - nosed blue chimera species , hold it the first such recording of the brute . Not only that , but the species was in the beginning believed to only drown the waters off the coast of Australia and New Zealand , meaning that the video also expands the known compass of the bizarre - look fish .

With our noesis of many specimen of Pisces the Fishes , and in fact many species hold out in the cryptical , coming from those caught in fisherman ’s nets , getting video footage of the beast in their natural environment can be critical in understanding them in gravid detail . Despite being one of the largest and most magnetic animate being in the sea , it was only relatively lately that the first footage of live   giant calamari was taken , and itrevealed their beautiful metal colour , which is suffer when the beast dies .

The expert now want to try and retrieve DNA evidence from the pointy - nosed chimera to genuinely make up one’s mind its personal identity and officially corroborate that it does endure in the waters off the US . They ’ll be doing so by confab fishermen ’s markets and checking their catches .

[ H / TNational Geographic ]