#colossal-squid

#colossal-squid

For more than two decades, scientists at California's Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have occasionally spotted a little translucent creature in the ocean's midnight zone. The gelatinous blob uses a hood surrounding its head to catch prey and has detachable tentacles; its hood and tail are decorated with glowing blue-green dots. This year, scientists finally figured out what it isthe mystery mollusk is actually a nudibranch, or sea slug. In fact, it's from an entirely new family of nudibranchs and has been dubbed Bathydevius caudactylus.