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LURKING, often thousands of feet deep below the ocean surface, are creatures that sometimes don’t look like they should be ...

It commonly lives in warm waters in the Pacific. The Stygomedusa gigantea is known to be a deep-sea jellyfish. Its bell can grow up to 2.3 feet (70 cm) wide. It’s smaller than some other big ...

An curved arrow pointing right. On a recent expedition in the Mariana Trench, NOAA's Okeanos Explorer team spotted this beautiful new jellyfish. Produced by Grace Raver Footage courtesy of NOAA ...

The vast expanse of word's underwater communities remains incredibly unexplored and remarkably understudies. But a recent study published in the Nature Communications gives first insights into the ...

Formerly known as the 'mystery mollusk,' this glow-in-the-dark nudibranch is the first of its kind to be seen living in the ...

Scientists chose to study a jellyfish species that is 'representative' of many creatures that live in deep water An experiment to test how seabed mining could affect deep sea life has revealed ...

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Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — ...

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

Researchers were baffled by a bioluminescent mollusk that lives in the deep ocean. They just discovered it's a new species of ...