This is, to the best of my knowledge, the first live footage of this animal worldwide,” Kat Bolstad of Auckland University of ...

The team used a high-tech, remote-operated underwater vehicle (ROV) to dive deep into the midnight zone. The ROV not only observed the creature in its natural environment but also collected ...

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 ...

This particular nudibranch is the first known to live in the deep water column—the ocean’s midnight zone—between 3,300 feet and 13,100 feet deep (1,000 to 4,000 meters).

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Creatures are the heart of South of Midnight, so I asked Compulsion how it crafted its magical world, and how it chose its legends. Lauren Bergin . Published: Mar 16, 2025. South of ...

This places the species firmly in the midnight or bathypelagic zone, which is a pitch-black section of the deep ocean between 3,300 and 13,100 feet below the surface.

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 ...

The creature lives in the “midnight zone," an area of the ocean so deep that sunlight never reaches it. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. In February 2000, scientists ...

The midnight zone is cold and dark and very forbidding to us terrestrial creatures, yet it is filled with life, albeit life forms adapted to a very different set of challenges than we face.