THIS bizarre fanged blackfish is among the weird new species discovered in a volcano off the coast of Australia.

    Scientists with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) took the snap on a research voyage. Apart from the scaleless blackfish — experts discovered an eel-like idiacanthidae and the chauliodontidae with huge front teeth, Mail Online reported.

    Professor Iain Suthers, a marine biologist — and chief scientist on the voyage — said the discovery alters the way researchers study younger fish.

    “We had thought fish only developed in coastal estuaries, and that once larvae were swept out to sea that was the end of them,” he said. But in fact, these eddies are nursery grounds for commercial fisheries along the east coast of Australia.”

    Four extinct volcanoes on the ocean-floor were also found during the research trip.  (SD-Agencies)