Never-before-seen adorable pink bumpy snailfish with funny little beard filmed in deep canyon off California coast

Bumpy snailfish photographed in the deep sea. It has a distinctive pink color, pectoral fins with long fin rays, and a unique bumpy texture. .

A bumpy, pink fish with blue eyes and beard-like appendages has been filmed hovering over the muddy bottom of Monterey Canyon, at a depth of more than 10,700 feet (3,300 meters) off the coast of California.

This strange little snailfish, captured on camera by a group led by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), turned out to be one of three newly identified snailfish species living in the perpetual darkness and crushing pressures of the ocean's depths.