{"id":17172,"date":"2017-06-03T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T20:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=17172"},"modified":"2017-06-03T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T20:15:58","slug":"fish-no-face-pulled-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/06\/03\/fish-no-face-pulled-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fish with NO FACE was Pulled Up From the Abyss!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s something BIZARRE…\u00a0Deep-sea scientists have pulled up a FISH WITH NO FACE<\/a> off the coast of Australia!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apparently the\u00a0fish, which has been named a Faceless Cusk<\/a>,\u00a0doesn’t need eyes because it lives in the deep dark depths of the ocean.<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Faceless-Cusk-full-body-JOhn-Pogonoski-anfc\"\n

The Investigator<\/em>, an Australian research vessel, has been trawling east of Australia’s Jervis Bay, New South Wales and found this weird-looking fish about\u00a0two and a half miles down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s not, however, the first time the\u00a0Typhlonus nasus<\/em> has been pulled up. In 1874, the HMS Challenger<\/em>, discovered the weird-looking fish\u00a0and drew this image of it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\"HMS-Challenger-fish\"\n

One of the Investigator<\/em> scientists on the trip recently\u00a0blogged this<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had a few challenges surveying this abyssal plain off eastern Australia. It\u2019s no easy task working at great depths, and at times we\u2019ve come up against an angry seafloor with huge boulders and canyons. Deploying and retrieving our collecting gear from 4000 metres is a skillful operation that takes five to six hours and involves paying out more than seven kilometres of wire. So just imagine the effort it must have taken for the Challenger’s <\/em>crew to trawl down to 6000 m depths\u00a0using piano wire, without our high-tech winches and computers!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\"TyphlonusNasusDJB\"\n

YIKES!<\/strong><\/p>\n

via Mental Floss<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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So very weird! #nicenostrils<\/a> #FishesofOZ<\/a> #RVInvestigator<\/a> #abysslife<\/a> @museumsvictoria<\/a> @NESPmarinehub<\/a> #facelessfish<\/a> @AllLittleFishes<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/2hRs3mpdFG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Fishes of Australia (@FishesAustralia) May 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n