Why the US, China and Russia are squabbling over an ugly, ghost-like fish that no-one wants to eat

Why the US, China and Russia are squabbling over an ugly, ghost-like fish that no-one wants to eat

Source: stuff

11/14/2022

Why the US, China and Russia are squabbling over an ugly, ghost-like fish that no-one wants to eat

Credit: Alfred Wegener Institut/Stuff

A strange pale fish, lurking in the icy depths of the Southern Ocean, has become the unlikely focus of the latest tussle between the United States, Russia and China.

Beneath the Antarctic ice shelves, living in almost perpetual darkness – the neopagetopsis ionah or Jonah’s icefish – are one of Earth’s most hardy and mysterious creatures.

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