Pictures: Strange Sea Species Found Off Greenland

Pictures: Strange Sea Species Found Off Greenland

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Double-Baited Anglerfish

Photograph courtesy Henrik Carl and Peter Rask Møller, Natural History Museum of Denmark

Anglerfish species new to Greenland include the peculiarly appendagedLinophryne bicornis, such as this specimen hauled up from a depth of 4,685 feet (1,428 meters) in 2009.

Anglerfish typically sport long protuberances, which can be waggled to lure otherfish close enough to be swallowed whole. (See picture of a newborn anglerfish.)

Though more fishers have been harvesting depths of 4,920 feet (1,500 meters), "the deepest waters of Greenland ... are still almost completely unstudied," the survey team writes.