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The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute captured footage of a giant phantom jelly with ribbon-like arms over 30 feet ...

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). But the most ...

These unusual features and behaviors are likely the result of its unique environment, deep below the surface in what's called the ocean's "midnight zone." "Almost every aspect of Bathydevius ...

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. The strange creature is see ...

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