(New Zealand Twitter)-Camera inserted into a shaft in the New Zealand colliery has stunned family members, who had been assured their loved ones died almost immediately and never stood hope of rescue.
Two other boxes, thought to contain breathing apparatus, remained closed.
Discovery has reignited arguments over whether rescuers should have entered the mine within hours of the explosion on November 19.
A second methane blast five days later ended all hopes of finding the 29 trapped miners alive.
Police Assistant Commissioner Grant Nicholls said Dr Martin Sage, a senior forensic pathologist, had examined the video images and was "very highly suspicious" that they showed a body.
battle has been made more difficult since the operators, Pike River Coal, went into receivership.
The receivers say there is not enough money to pay for a recovery operation.
New Zealand's government has appointed a royal commission of inquiry to investigate the country's worst mining disaster since 1914.
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