Weird and Wonderful: Deep sea gulper eel

Gulper eels are deepsea fish that live throughout the worlds ocean from a few hundred meters to over 2, 000 meters (over 6, 500 feet) in the deep midwater. The gulper eel s adaptations make it a very successful deepsea predatortheir oversized jaws and stomach allow them to capture prey, swallowing it whole. Using MBARI s remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), we ve seen gulper eels fewer than twenty times in 30 years of exploration in the deep midwater. Despite its rare appearance, this quintessential deepse