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In a fascinating video, researchers have revealed a new and bizarre see-through species of sea slug floating around the midnight zone of the deep sea. It was first discovered in California by Monterey ...

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An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time marker. According to a study published on February 10th in the journal ...

It dwells in the midnight zone. 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 ...

Some of the most bizarre lifeforms on Earth lurk in the deeper realms of the ocean. There was so little known about one of these creatures that it took 20 years just to figure out what exactly it was.

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 that ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — unlike most other species of its kind. When you purchase through links on ...