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 classified as a ...

The hood of B. caudactylus can also act something like a Venus flytrap. While it is not a hinged structure like the leaves of ...

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

The midnight zone is cold and dark and very forbidding ... To catch fast, hard-bodied prey like shrimp, they need an advantage, like jellyfish with their stinging abilities, he said." ...