An angler fish appears to ‘walk’ across the ocean floor as it waits for its prey

This animal which looks like a flower, is covered with glasslike needles but scientists think it is probably a carnivorous sponge. The pink spikes, covered with sticky tissue, appear to capture food as it passes by

Confirmation that the species discovered are new, including this type of crab, involves a scientific peer review and other steps. This can take years

The red arms of a Sea Lilly living 516 metres deep off the Sangihe Talaud Region near Indonesia

Like a creature from a science fiction film this is one of the 50 new plant and animal species discovered during the three-week expedition

A deep-sea Chimaera. Chimaeras are most closely related to sharks, although their evolutionary lineage branched off from sharks nearly 400 million years ago, and they have remained an isolated group ever since

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