Stunning male Tosanoides aphrodite found in the ocean’s twilight zone (Photo Credit: Luiz Rocha/California Academy of Sciences)

While the discovery of a new species is always newsworthy, that of a fish spectacular enough to be named Tosanoides aphrodite, after the Greek goddess of love and beauty, is even more so! Hudson Pinheiro and Luiz Rocha were exploring the deep-sea coral reefs, nearly 400 feet underwater, around Brazil’s Saint Peter and Saint Paul archipelago when they spotted the dazzling pink and yellow fish. The California Academy Of Sciences researchers were so mesmerized by the colorful ocean-dweller that it was only later, when viewing the video footage, that they noticed the 10-foot sixgill shark which had been hovering above.