For the very first time, scientists have captured live footage of the painted swellshark (Cephaloscyllium pictum) — a ...

The footage was filmed during an exploration of the deep-sea waters off the coast of Timor-Leste, a region that has proven to ...

The footage was taken during a survey of Timor-Leste’s deep sea environment, a South-East Asian nation that takes up half the island of Timor. This discovery came as researchers used ‘low cost deep ...

Cephaloscyllium pictum, or the painted swellshark, was first discovered in 2008 based on five specimens collected at fish markets in Lombok and Bali, Indonesia. The shark species grows to about ...

Most of what’s known about the deep-sea painted swellshark, was learned when researchers found specimens in the fish markets of Bali and Lombok, Indonesia back in the early 2000s. However ...

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