An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...

Bruce Robison was sitting in the control room of a research ship in Monterey Bay when he first saw the diaphanous deep-sea ...

Scientists discovered a fascinating new deep sea animal they call the "mystery mollusc," and captured footage of the glowing ...

“Only recently have cameras become capable of filming bioluminescence in high-resolution and in full color,” Haddock added.

It's named Bathydevius due to its "devious" nature that fooled the scientists at first, while caudactylus refers to the ...

A "remarkable" new sea slug nicknamed the “mystery mollusk” has been discovered swimming deep in the ocean's "midnight" zone.

MBARI researchers have classified the new species as Bathydevius caudactylus, colloquially called the "mystery mollusc." ...

Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI ... allowing us to study the luminous behavior of deep-sea ...

The animal nicknamed the “mystery mollusc” is described in a study published in the December 2024 issue of the journal ...

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