This Creature Found Off The Coast Of Antarctica Looks Like Something Straight Out Of 'Stranger Things.' It's A New Species

This Creature Found Off The Coast Of Antarctica Looks Like Something Straight Out Of 'Stranger Things.' It's A New Species

This Creature Found Off The Coast Of Antarctica Looks Like Something Straight Out Of 'Stranger Things.' It's A New Species Mikhail V. Nazarkin is an ichthyologist, or fish specialist, at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Recently, the senior researcher — who has contributed to over 150 scientific publications — was poring over the academy’s archive collections in St. Petersburg, Russia, when he stumbled across his latest discovery.  Nazarkin was looking at collections from a 1989 research expedition off the coast of Eastern Antarctica when “two unusual” fish prompted him to take a closer look.  Through radiography, he was able to conclude that the specimens belonged to a new species of eelpout — a coldwater ray-finned fish.  And now, the peculiar fish, which sat in St. Petersburg’s for nearly four decades, has finally been added to the scientific record.  “The new species has low number of vertebrae [less than 100] and can be distinguished from other …