A close-up video from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is offering a rare glimpse of one of the ocean's strangest creatures: a glowing deep-sea dragonfish drifting through the so-called ...

A two-week research cruise off the coast of Brazil has returned with 31 animals that appear to be species never formally ...

Argentine researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor filmed at least seven bioluminescent ...

(CNN) — Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean’s midnight zone: a glowing “mystery mollusk.” Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of glowing sea slug deep in the ocean’s midnight zone. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists said in a press release on Tuesday that ...

A team of researchers has published a detailed description of the undersea creature previously dubbed the “mystery mollusk” due to its bizarre body. The animal’s scientific name is Bathydevius ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and ...

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Every adaptation that Bathydevius has developed to live in the midnight zone, classified as the deep waters that exist between 3,300 feet and 13,100 feet below the ocean's surface, is unique from ...