A team of scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) said on September 8, 2025, that they’ve discovered three new species of snailfish. They first spotted the snailfish in 2019 while exploring the deep-sea floor off the coast of California. Their advanced underwater technology made the discovery possible.
After the researchers collected the specimens, they collaborated with scientists from the State University of New York at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo), the University of Montana and the University of Hawaii at Manoa to try to identify them. The scientists conducted both morphological and genetic analyses and have now confirmed that these three species are previously unknown to science…