For over a century, the colossal squid has been one of the deep sea’s most slippery enigmas. Known mostly through bits and ...

Since its discovery in 1925, only eight adult specimens have been reported, severely limiting scientists’ ability to research ...

Scientists proved that the sea still holds some big mysteries after capturing footage of the colossal squid — the largest ...

In this study, the team analyzed the genomes of 77 mollusk species that are representative of eight major groups from around ...

A baby colossal squid was filmed in the deep sea by an ocean expedition near Antarctica. The world's largest squid has eluded ...

The mystery mollusks are hermaphrodites ... allowing us to study the luminous behavior of deep-sea animals in their natural habitat.” Bioluminescence isn’t commonly found in other sea slugs ...

These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ... The researchers also spotted this recently identified “mystery mollusk” (Bathydevius caudactylus) swimming far from its known ...

government funding agencies and industry to take part in deep-sea oceanographic research expeditions in the remotest regions of our planet. Our research is focused on invertebrate groups such as ...

Sunlight penetrates no farther than a few hundred feet down, leaving the deep-sea floor as dark as the ... Some creatures, such as the mollusks known as gastropod snails, feast on the bacteria ...

While operating the deep-sea robot nearly 7,000 feet below the ... then when they find soft-bodied prey like sponges or molluscs, the animal “thrusts its straw-like proboscis into the animal ...