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The whiptail gulper eel (Saccopharynx lavenbergi), for example, lives 980 to 6,600 feet (300 to 2,000 m) deep in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Commercial trawlers caught deep-water eel with large head and regrown tail, later identified by scientists as a new species: Smith’s witch eel, study said.

Commercial trawlers caught deep-water eel with large head and regrown tail, later identified by scientists as a new species: Smith’s witch eel, study said.

Commercial trawlers caught deep-water eel with large head and regrown tail, later identified by scientists as a new species: Smith’s witch eel, study said.

Commercial trawlers caught deep-water eel with large head and regrown tail, later identified by scientists as a new species: Smith’s witch eel, study said.

Commercial trawlers caught deep-water eel with large head and regrown tail, later identified by scientists as a new species: Smith’s witch eel, study said.

Trawlers off southern India caught a deep-sea creature with a regrown tail later identified by scientists as a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Hundreds of feet down in the ...