A new species has been discovered in a part of the ocean previously thought to be entirely free of fish.
The findings, in one of the deepest places on the planet, were made by a team of marine biologists from the University of Aberdeen and experts from Japan and New Zealand.
The University of Aberdeen said these latest discoveries helped shed new light on life in the depths of the Earth.
The discovery could mean that there are thousands more unknown fish in hidden depths in the world's ocean. Dr Jamieson said: 'What we found was that indeed there was another unique species of snailfish living at 7,000 metres - entirely new to science - which had never been caught or seen before.
Dr Toyonobu Fujii, a deep-sea fish expert from Aberdeen University, added: 'How deep fish can live has long been an intriguing question and the results from this expedition has provided deeper insight into our understanding of the global distribution of fish in the oceans.'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1320454/New-fish-species-discovered-4-5-miles-beneath-Pacific-Ocean-near-Chile.html#ixzz143Csir82
