For the first time, a deep sea angler fish was spotted last week in daylight. The incident was iconic, especially for the ...

The scary-looking fish is usually to be found more than a mile below the surface, where little to no light penetrates.

Miles below, a deep-sea fish approached the camera’s bait then, changing its mind, swam backward to escape. The footage turned out to be a first-of-its-kind sighting — but it wasn’t the last.

Deep-sea fish are animals that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish.