Cameras lowered into the Mariana Trench have captured a mysterious living creature at nearly 36,000 feet deep, and science still cannot explain what it is. The footage emerged from one of the most extreme environments on Earth, where crushing pressure should make survival nearly impossible.
In March 2019, three commercial fishermen were working about 90 kilometers off the coast of Esperance, a remote town in southwestern Australia. Their boat was over water more than 4,000 meters deep. The sonar detected something unusual at roughly 600 meters, and soon after, a large, dark shape moved beneath their vessel.The three men had decades of combined professional experience. The lead fisher…