Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube What has needle-like teeth so large they don’t fit inside its mouth, a huge gaping jaw that completely engulfs its prey, and lives in the ocean zone ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, in the shadowy twilight zone, armies of shimmering lanternfish rise and fall like silent, living elevators. These humble fish, often overlooked and unknown, are ...

It lives at an extreme depth of 1,000 to 4,000 meters, or 3,300 to 13,100 feet, below the surface in the ocean’s midnight zone, creating a unique challenge for scientists who’ve worked for ...

A team of researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has discovered a glowing “mystery mollusk” within the ocean's midnight zone. The species, named Bathydevius ...

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 ...

This critter lurks in the ocean's midnight zone, has a voluminous hood, is completely see through and is bioluminescent. It's unlike any nudibranchs deep sea experts have ever seen before — and ...

Every adaptation that Bathydevius has developed to live in the midnight zone, classified as the deep waters that exist between 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) and 13,100 feet (4,000 meters) below the ...

It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was actually a sea slug. Skip to content Skip to site index.

Its range is anywhere from 655 to 5,000 feet deep, which includes the twilight and midnight ocean zones. In these deep zones, the water is cold and the sunlight is very faint to nonexistent.

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 as ...