We know surprisingly little about the deep ocean or the strange creatures that live there. These unusual animals have evolved ...

But enmeshed in their trawl nets — which had been dragged 1,000 feet under the waves — were five peculiar creatures. The slimy, serpentine fish, as it turns out, belonged to a previously ...

These tough, slimy creatures with small bumps feed on small planktonic microorganisms, which they capture using a ‘mucus net’. Pyrosomes are known to cluster together in large numbers ...

13 in the journal Scientific Reports. The slimy creatures were found to emit a “continuous green light.” “Biofluorescence of the terrestrial snail genus Phuphania. (A–C) Adults of P.

Scientists found a “rare” slimy creature hiding in “brackish water” of Japan and the Philippines and discovered a new species. Photo from Hirozumi Kobayashi via Huang, Hibino, Balisco and ...

In a murky river of southern Japan, a slimy creature with “pointed” teeth burrowed into the mud. Its shadowy habitat and cryptic looks helped it go largely unnoticed and, when occasionally ...