Take a meditative moment and gaze into the eyes of the deep-sea rattail fish

[@holaramirez]

Deep Sea has always fascinated me.😌

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

How strange it must be for a creature that has lived its entire life in absolute darkness and then suddenly for a brief time they can see in the illumination of an ROV.

[@JamesLamb]

Or blinded.

[@crinoidthyroid]

So beautiful... Looking at sea animals is always relaxing. Just reminds me that we're all alive here, and that I need to slow down a bit and "go with the flow"..!

[@kanatapaw]

Exactly live In the moment ❤

[@OrcaKiller1996]

That fish is so wonderful.

[@MrDiggityaus]

* looks into eyes* What’s that ratfish, you want me to destroy commercial fishing? Burn it all down you say? 😂

[@anthonychihuahua]

..from my human eyes.. it seems the expression on deep sea creatures is one of sullenness. As if they're content in choosing and accepting their life of solitude.

[@ephixel]

I don't think you know what sullen means...

[@anthonychihuahua]

​​@@ephixel I suggest you use a dictionary, Shinji 🙂

[@ephixel]

@@anthonychihuahua Sullen means surly, dour, bad-tempered, discontent. Literally the opposite of content. Perhaps you don't know what content means instead?

[@anthonychihuahua]

@@ephixel from Oxford dictionary: sul·len /ˈsələn/ Learn to pronounce adjective bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy. "a sullen pout" I think you need to step off your high horse and learn to use a dictionary, kiddo 🤣

[@anthonychihuahua]

​@@ephixel you just need better reading comprehension skills 👍

[@larasyegan2752]

Magic world ✨ beautiful Universe !

[@SunSheepOfLight]

Odd yet beautiful!

[@hugsuniverse]

This is just so very very cool! Really interesting. Thank you for making this and the music was relaxing.

[@cassascorner611]

if their eyes are meant to pick up the faintest light, do they go blind from moment like these? It seems like their staring into the sun, metaphorically.

[@MBARIvideo]

Our researchers have some anecdotal evidence that the majority of the animals' eyes recover after they return to their normal dark environment.

[@JamesLamb]

I was just watching a video about SCUBA lighting courtesy which said in areas where divers are common, predator fish have learned to grab prey that has been temporarily blinded. For research, maybe someone could invent a camera that does a less intrusive laser-thin sweep with each color separately and capture each color as it sweeps instantaneously instead of shining a continuous white beam. Of course on land, a red beam is used since many nocturnal creatures ? can't see this wavelength ?

[@JH-pt6ih]

Is there any information on the fish anywhere? For instance, what are the two little eyes or nostrils in between the big eyes? Or what is latched onto some of the fish? Some of those are very sad looking fish!

[@MBARIvideo]

More about these fascinating fish: mbari.co/RattailFish

[@MBARIvideo]

The fish at 05:37 Coryphaenoides has a parasitic copepod attached to it's back.

[@MBARIvideo]

05:13 Macrouridae sp. is a juvenile with filaments trailing behind. We don't know the purpose of these filaments, but we do know that no adult rattails have them.

[@hazel-nut]

@@MBARIvideo 😁 oh, these juveniles! Trying new fashion!!! 😊 Adults don't do that, they serious and reasonable 😊

[@missciera]

there was a clip of one of these during one of the presentations at the monterey bay aquarium and i have never seen a creature i more immediately related to than this guy. just look at it

[@LIYNSKIN]

Wonderful work guys

[@jennifervan75]

This is beautiful. Mother nature is amazing. Let's hope big corporations don't kill these creatures

[@democrazy69]

All you're gonna do is hope? Nature is doomed.

[@jennifervan75]

@@democrazy69 nah, I want a public exec*tion of them but that might not happen. (Sorry for the censoring, youtube is whack)

[@democrazy69]

@@jennifervan75 wanting and hoping. same thing.

[@Cybernaut551]

@@democrazy69 No defeatism, only cynical optomism.

[@democrazy69]

@@Cybernaut551 Same result.

[@kanatapaw]

Watched the blue planet as a kid. Became obsest with the ocean More so with the deep. It's beyond fascinating.

[@whaleblubber4333]

thank you monterey bay aquarium research institute i will enjoy gazing at this fish

[@VioletVorpal]

So serene ❤

[@Alittlepillowcompanyhome]

Thank you for this 💚

[@junaidmuhammed5740]

Officially out of this world, like the sea angel

[@zamfantastic]

2 things, What are the lines hanging down from the juves chests, an extension of the lungs? Also, sometimes I wish that I could just swim & walk down there, with those beautiful, fascinating creatures. I’m sure I’d need bigger better eyes, for starts.

[@Radiata_Lionfish]

The lines are probably extensions from the pelvic fins

[@PedroCreaciones]

Esos ojos son 🌌

[@mathilda6763]

He's like "wtf bro, stop staring at me. I'm trying to make a living here!"

[@chiseldrock]

so if they can comunicate with each other do you think theyhave stories of bright lights and abductions like we do???lol

[@NoeDactyl]

That's hilarious but abduction is not possible without killing the fish

[@alaskajdw]

Wow. Simply wow

[@nomodnolife]

I love this channel

[@mikebowen1246]

Beautiful!

[@susantunbridge4612]

"Cold as a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night."

[@Frgttn_09]

Wonderful...

[@KavenLeandro]

Is their long life spam related to diet, light, or movement (metabolism)?

[@vickijohnson4668]

there is so much we don't know about our own planet

[@june9837]

nice fish

[@Ejiovdsafjkii]

It's looking at the camera!

[@dolanisworth]

Maasyaa Allooh 😍

[@nikolas0]

thats freaking sick

[@CFLsurfr]

Deep sea rattail fish: God?

[@evpack]

I wonder how long their eyes take to adapt after being lit up like that? If at all?

[@NoeDactyl]

They get temporarily blinded but most fish recover after being back in the dark for a bit

[@stephie3206]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@catface]

😍😍

[@SiddharthGargYT]

Is this in slow motion??

[@MBARIvideo]

No, these clips are real-time. In general, life in the deep is sloooow. :)

[@paladro]

wow

[@SuperiorWare]

Must be boring down there in the deep sea.

[@анатолийновиков-ж8д]

Структурная изысканность/возможной формы вещества/ Ваяние или случайность/прекрасно внешность создана?//

[@quiksilverw0352]

They’re cute until you take into consideration they are largely scavengers and found near the wreck of the titanic what do y’all think they were eating after it sank?? 😐

[@susantunbridge4612]

100% Predator.

[@m.fraguelaxd2546]

Why is it judging me

[@АлексейСерегин-р6ж]

вот зачем рыбе нос, елси у нее жабры есть?

[@GiacomoCarali]

fish

[@readytogo6569]

Is this shark a.k.a. a Ghost Shark? Does the Chimera have a rounder snout (among other differences)?

[@Radiata_Lionfish]

Nope, not a shark. These fish are also called grenadiers and are part of the ray-finned fish family, which includes most bony fishes.

[@anthonychihuahua]

5:37 🤔 is that something similar to a remora on the back of that fish?

[@anthonychihuahua]

..or was she wearing ribbons in her hair because she knew the camera would be there, lol!

[@larissalemon3702]

It is actually a parasitic copepod attached to its back

[@anthonychihuahua]

​@@larissalemon3702 thanks 🙂

[@mspikmin123]

fishe

[@lisamcallister6534]

Are you the ones saying catching lobsters should be illegal? Be honest.

[@democrazy69]

Are you a dumb trumper? Lie to us.

[@murielvaillancourt3855]

Such a wonderful planet, all alone of its kind and that we destroy without a remorse, imaging to find a new rock to terraform! We don’t deserve to share this world anymore. We must be the target of this 6th mass extinction. The only way to preserve Earth to die.😢

[@Coastwiser]

I still can’t believe what idiots you are for the attitude and actions you have taken against Maine Lobsterman. The most safe and sustainable fishery ever.

[@berndzagel4302]

More meditative moments please... I did like your jellyfish video, but the scientific captions should be turnable offable.. sometimes no info is better. The sheer beauty is lost in the analysis thing. Thank you for your great work.

[@KlNGkhaled]

Question for the intelligent people only Did the sea ,fish and universe created it self ? Or there is a knowing creator ?

[@halla3184]

yes

[@KlNGkhaled]

Cool my boat created itself too Infact life has no meaning you just eat sleep and die no justice for poor no justice for weak Nothing just live your life until you die no goal in life only money Depression deep sea

[@buddharuci2701]

No

[@matiasgaray470]

We don't know yet and maybe we won't, but what we can know is that it exists.

[@KlNGkhaled]

I am a human i need guidance in this life i know i am here for a reason not for eating eand sleeping i am not like the animals i walk with two legs in stright beautiful way I wear clothes i can create anything i want i am intelligent i am above all these creatures But wait .. who created me ? Why i exist? I want to know who created me This is human Human need guidance so god sent messenger some people believe those messenger some disbelieved and they are many God sent prophets such as Moses Aron Jesus Muhammed Noah ebraham and so on So there is a religion What is the most common religions ? Islam and christinity Christinity = Belief Jesus as god and a son of god and a soul of god so there are 3 but 1 aka trinity Mary give the birth to her god her creator christiny believe Jesus god he eat and sleep but still a god Islam = belief Jesus as messenger and human that has miracles like other messengers not god not son God in islam is one nothing is like him he has no statues no pictures he never eat never sleep never born never begate How could god do human things ???? So now you know You chose it’s up to you Sorry for my bad English

[@tamer.zohair]

Praise GOD ALLAH THE CREATOR.

[@mysteryY2K]

nigga this is pokemon

[@fireantmedia7946]

cant blame astronauts for becoming emotional when they see earth from space...to think all this beauty of earth....all on this tiny speck floating in space

[@Pygmygerbil88]

it is like looking back at paloezoic