"Everyone in the control room let out a loud 'Oooooh!' at the same time. We were all enchanted," a researcher said.

Advances in technology that enabled the discovery of a new species by California scientists may lead to a better ...

A deep-sea dweller that rarely comes to the ocean’s surface washed ashore a beach in Southern California, making it the ...

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

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

Scientists uncovered the "mystery mollusk," a strange glowing sea creature lurking in the ocean's midnight depths.

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 with a large hood. At one point ...

Formerly known as the 'mystery mollusk,' this glow-in-the-dark nudibranch is the first of its kind to be seen living in the ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — ...

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

Researchers were baffled by a bioluminescent mollusk that lives in the deep ocean. They just discovered it's a new species of ...