Eel Attacking Hagfish

Video courtesy of Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), DEEP SEARCH 2019 - BOEM, USGS, NOAA. Download larger version (mp4, 19 MB).

In this video from the lander’s test deployment, you can see a cutthroat eel, Synaphobranchus sp., attack a hagfish attached to the bait.

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