The marine photographer who captured the footage said it could be the world's first recorded sighting of a black seadevil ...

Sunlight, the lifeblood of the ocean’s surface, penetrates only to a certain depth—around 650 feet—beyond which the marine world plunges into perpetual darkness. This “euphotic” zone ...

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

At night, like many other animals that live in the twilight zone, it migrates to more shallow waters in search of food. Each night it reaches the upper layer of the ocean, or sunlight zone where ...

The sighting is rare as the fish typically stays in the depths of the ocean below the sunlight zone. It’s perhaps the first time the fish has been spotted and reported at this depth.