Researchers finally identify the ocean’s “mystery mollusk”
Some of the most bizarre lifeforms on Earth lurk in the deeper realms of the ocean. There was so little known about one of ...
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Newly discovered sea slug is first known to swim in the ocean's Midnight Zone
The sea slug exhibits bright bioluminescence, glowing a bioluminescent blue when threatened to distract ... initial impact comes from its unusual anatomy and configuration, which is very unlike ...
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Glowing and Swimming Sea Slugs Newly Discovered in the Deep Sea
Their genetic makeup and anatomy make them different from other sea slugs we know, Robison said. With a gelatinous hood on one end and ... These are our neighbors that share our blue planet. Each new ...
The New York Times1 个月
‘Devious’ New Deep Sea Creature Hid Its Identity From Scientists
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 ... including what its anatomy and physiology ...
Popular Science1 个月
New deep-sea slug catches crustaceans like a Venus fly trap
They investigated its anatomy and genetics and confirmed that it is a nudibranch–aka a sea slug. Most nudibranchs live along the seafloor. They are also common in many coastal environments ...
KCCI Des Moines1 个月
‘Mystery mollusk’ found in the ocean’s midnight zone is unlike anything researchers ...
"Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a sea slug, the marine animal ... to study it closer in a lab, and its anatomy and genetics revealed the creature ...