Miles below, a deep-sea fish approached the camera’s bait then, changing its mind, swam backward to escape. The footage turned out to be a first-of-its-kind sighting — but it wasn’t the last.

Deep-sea fish are animals that live in the darkness below the sunlit surface waters, that is below the epipelagic or photic zone of the sea. The lanternfish is, by far, the most common deep-sea fish.

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which ...