SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A new species living at extreme ocean depths in Monterey Bay Canyon was discovered by researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).

Photographs and videos shot by MBARI along the ocean floor were released this week. They reveal a deep sea creature that looks like a fish combined with the color and cuteness of an axolotl.

The pink fish appears to be smiling as it swims past a high-tech camera 10,722 feet below the ocean's surface.

"MBARI researchers encountered an unfamiliar pink snailfish swimming just above the seafloor. New research from MBARI collaborators has confirmed this individual represents a species previously unknown to science: the bumpy snailfish (Careproctus colliculi)," MBARI announced this week.

A bumpy snailfish (Careproctus

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