Marine scientists have identified and named a mysterious creature of the deep sea after studying the elusive sea slug for twenty years. Bathydevius caudactylus is a newly identified sea slug that ...

Researchers Discover an Incredible New Sea Slug in Deep Sea, Nickname it 'Mystery Mollusc' Researchers were stunned when they ...

The mystery mollusc was initially spotted in February 2000 while using the ROV named Tiburon in a research mission.

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MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in ...

Scientists have discovered the ultimate case of regeneration: Some decapitated sea slugs can regrow hearts and whole new bodies. This “wonder of nature,” reported in a biology journal on ...

[Related: This dashing tropical sea slug just showed up in the UK.] The team from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research ... It has a voluminous hooded structure at one end, a flat tail that’s fringed ...

With a voluminous hooded structure at one end, a flat tail fringed with numerous finger-like projections at the other ...

Their genetic makeup and anatomy make them different from other sea slugs we know, Robison said. With a gelatinous hood on one end and a flat paddle-like tail with “fingers” at the other and colorful ...

It is a bizarre and captivating sea slug. Its unusual appearance is described by a large hooded structure, a flat tail adorned with finger-like projections, and internally visible colorful organs.

One side of the nudibranch — known colloquially as a sea slug — is a “voluminous hooded structure at one end” with a “tail fringed with numerous finger-like projections at the other ...