Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets ...

Narrator: This is David Stein, a deep-sea-fish biologist who was lucky enough to dissect 19 blobfishes in the 1970s. Blobfish look blobby because they are full of water. Under their skin ...

It encompassed nearly the entire depth range of deep-sea fish habitats (1,218–7,730 meters) and yielded 11 deep-sea fish species from six major groups. By analyzing genetic data from these deep ...