These are the weird, alien-like creatures that are part of an incredible collection of images taken by a Russian deep sea trawler fishermen fascinated by the deep sea denizens from the Twilight zone.

Murmansk-based Roman Fedortsov from the city of Murmansk in north-western Russia’s Arkhangelsk Oblast region was so amazed by some of the bizarre creatures he was fishing from the twilight zone, where he sometimes fishes up to thousand metres below the surface (3,300 feet), that he started photographing and videoing them.

He said that the bizarre creatures that he was finding in the catch were so much stranger than anything he could possibly imagine.

Indeed, the creatures which are adapted for survival in almost permanent darkness all year round are often compared to aliens by his online followers, despite in reality being far closer to home after they are pulled from the sea off north-west Russia from the area known as the “Twilight zone” by scientists.

The latest additions shown here include this alien headed fish, or another with what looks like bizarre tentacles protruding from its mouth.

Another ancient-looking fish appears to have teeth worn down by overuse that are constantly being replaced by fresh teeth coming from the back of its mouth.

The trawlerman has become something of a celebrity online from his pictures, with many of his images going viral even though he admits that he often has little idea what most of them are, and which he shares out of curiosity.

Despite the many comments that he gets, he said that he found all of the fish fascinating and did not share the opinion of many that they were ugly monsters.

He said: “In their own way all of these creatures are beautiful.”

He fishes mostly in the Barents Sea, off the northern coasts of Russia, which opens into the Arctic Ocean. But he also travels to other parts of the world, including the Atlantic Ocean, off Africa.

He said that the huge array of different creatures that he was finding was confirmation of anything that so little of the ocean depths have really been explored by man.

Most of the species in these images which he shared with Newsflash have not identified.