VIDEO: Scientists Find Bizarre Sea Creature in the Midnight Zone
For over 20 years, researchers have been encountering a mysterious creature lurking kilometers beneath the ocean’s surface. Now, they’ve finally uncovered its secret: it belongs to a previously unknown group of animals,
Scientists discover mysterious deep sea creature. It hunts with a hood.
Scientists discovered a fascinating new deep sea animal they call the "mystery mollusc," and captured footage of the glowing nudibranch in its dark ocean habitat.
California Researchers Discover Mysterious, Gelatinous New Sea Slug
More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it was a new species of sea slug
'Mystery Mollusc': Video Reveals Weird See-Through Deep-Sea Species
"Everyone in the control room let out a loud 'Oooooh!' at the same time. We were all enchanted," a researcher said.
California scientists astounded by discovery of mystery deep sea species
After an initial sighting almost a quarter century ago, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have revealed a deep-sea discovery for the ages. On Monday, MBARI researchers announced the existence of an entirely new species of sea slug that lives in the deep waters off Monterey Bay known as the “midnight zone.
Rarely seen deep-sea creature washes up in CA for second time in months, experts say
A deep-sea dweller that rarely comes to the ocean’s surface washed ashore a beach in Southern California, making it the second one to appear in just a few months. Now, researchers are trying to figure out what brought it.
Scientists Finally Understand Bizarre Deep-Sea Creature Discovered in 2000
Formerly known as the 'mystery mollusk,' this glow-in-the-dark nudibranch is the first of its kind to be seen living in the ocean's ultra-dark midnight zone.
‘Mystery mollusk’ found in the ocean’s midnight zone is unlike anything researchers have seen before
An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...
Scientists discovered the strangest sea slug in the ocean
Researchers were baffled by a bioluminescent mollusk that lives in the deep ocean. They just discovered it's a new species of ...
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Scientists unmask mystery of glowing sea slug that kept them guessing for 25 years
MBARI researchers have classified the new species as Bathydevius caudactylus, colloquially called the "mystery mollusc." ...
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New glowing species of sea slug that inhabits ocean's deep sea 'midnight zone' discovered
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 ...
Bioluminescent sea slug discovered in the deep sea swims through the ocean's midnight zone
MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus ...
New deep-sea slug catches crustaceans like a Venus fly trap
Most sea slugs use their raspy tongues to feed on prey that is attached to the seafloor. Instead, Bathydevius caudactylus ...