It’s said that we know more about the surface of the moon than the depths of our own ocean, and a recent video only confirmed that the dark depths can seem just as alien as things outside our own planet.
The unsettling video was posted to the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre’s Instagram account on Sept. 30.
Scientists were exploring the Pacific Ocean’s Tonga Trench, the second-deepest in the world after the Marianas Trench, when an otherworldly creature appeared in frame.
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The massive animal can be seen eating a bait fish tied in front of the camera.
This oceanic beast, although otherworldly, is not quite an unidentified leviathan.
The research center identified the fish as a Pacific sleeper shark, saying they are “slow-moving giants
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