"Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as a sea slug, the marine animal is unlike any sea slug Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have seen ...

The animal was so unique that they had no idea what it was until they did genetic testing. It turned out to be a new species of sea slug that's perfectly adapted to the deep ocean. It's been over ...

is a play on the deep-sea animal’s "devious" nature that fooled researchers, the researchers said. Bathydevius is the first nudibranch, or sea slug, known to live in the deep sea. The sea slug ...

Eventually, they were able to more closely examine the animal in the lab and confirmed it was a nudribranch, also known as a sea slug, according to the release. Nudibranches tend to live on the ...

Scientists found a bioluminescent deep-sea animal with a “gelatinous ... Scientifically known as nudibranchs, these slug-like animals usually crawl around slowly and eat “prey attached ...