This astonishing image may look like a deep-sea monster, with its big teeth and gaping mouth, but the humpback anglerfish is really no bigger than your hand
) seems even more terrifying when its inner intricacies are revealed. The deep-sea monster, also known as Johnson’s abyssal seadevil, was photographed by
The image shows the fish after a long process of cleaning and staining to reveal its internal structures. Scientists used a digestive enzyme to remove the soft tissue, exposing bones and collagen, which were then stained. Blue shows cartilage, while the red is bone. Sometimes not all tissues become transparent during the chemical processes: for example, the dark mass is the fish’s stomach.that have evolved in deep-sea species, says Zankl.
Since deep-sea photography is a big challenge, Zankl says that working with scientists lets him visit otherwise inaccessible places. Documenting such creatures sheds light on their biology and on the broader ecological processes in fragile ecosystems, he says.
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