There is indeed a mystery of the deep as scientist revealed recently that they have been searching for the rarest animal in the world for more than 30 years and finally they found it. According to Peter Ward, a biologist at the University of Washington, they first spotted the Allonautilus scrobiculatus in 1984.
For more than three decades the biologist Peter Ward and his colleague Bruce Saunders have been searching to the rare animal. According to research, the hairy animal looked fairly similar to the better known Nautilus pompilius, but proved to be an entirely new species.
The long journey of finding the rarest animal in the world finally ended earlier this month, when Peter Ward ventured to Papua New Guinea to hunt for the cephalopod again. He also revealed that aside from the creature’s evasiveness, the schematics of the research were also complicated.
According to Ward, his crew had to jump between several locations but his team kept turning up empty-handed. They even set up a “bait on a stick” system every night, hoping to attract the nautiluses, which live some 500 to 1,300 feet below the surface, until finally they found it alongside a cousin.
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