The bioluminescent animal didn’t match up with anything they’d seen before, so they nicknamed it the “mystery mollusk.” “It sort of looks like it was made up from spare parts left over ...

The organism’s distinctive, glowing presence was observed by multiple deep-sea missions between 2000 to 2021 but was simply referred to as “mystery mollusk.” A team of Monterey Bay Aquarium ...

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 ...