Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean's midnight zone: a glowing "mystery mollusk." ...

“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 ...

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute identified an intriguing new deep sea species off of California. It's see-through, can glow, and nabs prey with a large hood. At one point ...

This is Bathydevius caudactylus, the first known nudibranch of its kind: living not in shallow waters, or on the seafloor, ...

It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was ...

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

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

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus ...

A new glowing nudibranch species is the first known to swim through the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for ...