{"id":7163,"date":"2023-04-03T06:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T01:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7163"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:10:09","slug":"what-is-snailfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-snailfish\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Snailfish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists dropped an autonomous &#8220;lander&#8221; camera into the <strong>Izu-Ogasawara Trench<\/strong> near <strong>Japan <\/strong>and filmed the snailfish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Snailfish<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Snailfish is also called a sea snail and it is <strong>a deep-sea fish.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>There are over 400 known species of snailfish, and they range in size from just a <strong>few centimetres to nearly a meter in length.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are Elongated, soft, tadpole-shaped fish with loose and scaleless, though sometimes prickly, skins.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They are well adapted to life in the <strong>extreme environment of the deep sea<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Snailfish are found in cold water in the <strong>North Atlantic, North Pacific, Arctic and Antarctic seas.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About Izu-Ogasawara Trench<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in the <strong>western Pacific Ocean<\/strong>, on the boundary between the <strong>Philippine Sea Plate and the Pacific Plate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the most seismically active regions on Earth.<\/li>\n<li>The trench is formed by the Pacific Plate <strong>subducting beneath the Philippine Sea Plate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an Ocean trench?<\/h3>\n<p>Ocean trenches are long, narrow depressions on the seafloor. These chasms are the deepest parts of the ocean\u2014and some of the deepest natural spots on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/03\/asia\/deepest-fish-filmed-off-japan-scn-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Scientists film deepest ever fish on seabed off Japan<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snailfish is also called a sea snail and it is a deep-sea fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}