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

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...

“Only recently have cameras become capable of filming bioluminescence in high-resolution and in full color,” Haddock added.

MBARI researchers have described a remarkable new species of nudibranch from the depths of the midnight zone ... mollusk” has ...

It can glow with bioluminescence. It lives at an extreme depth of 1,000 to 4,000 meters, or 3,300 to 13,100 feet, below the ...

It's named Bathydevius due to its "devious" nature that fooled the scientists at first, while caudactylus refers to the ...

First observed in February 2000 during a dive with an ROV offshore of Monterey Bay at a depth of 2,614 meters (8,576 feet ...

As research over the past several decades has shown, whales play a critical role in bolstering ocean ecosystems. Many whale ...

While most sea slugs use a rough tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, B. caudactylus uses a cavernous hood to ...

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