A live image of the new eel (Protanguilla palau)

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Published on Aug 16, 2011 by

This video shows the a live image of the new eel (Protanguilla palau). This research was published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B in the paper: A 'living fossil' eel (Anguilliformes: Protanguillidae, fam nov) from an undersea cave in Palau by G. David Johnson, Hitoshi Ida, Jiro Sakaue, Tetsuya Sado, Takashi Asahida and Masaki Miya. The doi link for the article is http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rspb.2011.1289

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  • unbelievable that these discoveries are still possible .... great!

  • I bet the coelacanths gonna dislike this...

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  • It's beautiful !!!

  • WOOOW!GO PALAU! I'm Palauan and proud of it!! WOOOW!!

  • great! was looking for a picture after reading the wiki article.

    i wouldt call it new eel, more likely old eel :D

  • Awesome looking fish. great find. !!

  • fake and gay

  • Is that a corpse of another eel that it is protecting ? It looks like the decaying matter of a leftover eel of the same species.

  • @dirites -- Two hundred million year old chicken liver.

  • @1SOULKISS Just wait till they drill down into Lake Vostok!

  • Poor eels, the man has found them. This can only mean a horrible-horrible thing.

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