Honeycomb Dragonfish from Deep Sea - real or fake?

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Unique film of the deep sea honeycomb scaly dragonfish, Stomias affinis, or Günther's boafish. A dragonfish of the Stomiidae fish family. Found worldwide, but in deep dark water, it is thought to live 1000metres (3,300ft) down in the day and then come up nearer the surface under darkness, with the nightly migration of sea creatures. These fish use glowing lures and have glowing light organs (called photophores) all down their sides. They can turn this bioluminescent light on and off and using a sensor near the eyes they can exactly match the surrounding illumination to camouflage themselves and ambush small prawns, fish or squid in their massive teeth. The details of a living creature is shown here for the first time, though first described by Victorian zoologist, Albert Gunther, in 1887, who was a famous zoologist at the Natural History Museum, London. In the 1870s he took part in the first global deep ocean expedition, a three year 'grand tour' aboard HMS Challenger, with a crew o

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