Suddenly the dark waters lit up with a “starry”-looking glow. The source? An unusual new species of deep-sea animal. “Everyone in the control room let out a loud ‘Oooooh!’ at the same time. We were ...

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

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

Glowing in the dark can help a jelly disguise itself as zooplankton while seeking its own prey. These creatures of the sea ...

Most sea slugs use their raspy tongues to feed on prey that is attached to the seafloor. Instead, Bathydevius caudactylus ...

These dark depths are home to a menagerie of deep sea creatures, from bright red bloody-belly comb jellies (Lampocteis ...

Unlike albinism, where there is a complete lack of melanin and the iris is red due to underlying blood vessels, leucistic animals retain normal eye pigmentation. In the case of this angular roughshark ...

Microbes unable to break down carbohydrates belong to a newly identified family of marine bacteria. A German-American ...

A German-American research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from ...

During a solar eclipse, the unexpected dark might trigger an ... insights into how these marine animals adapt to abrupt changes in their environment. Observing sea turtles during the eclipse ...