Gallery: 10 Bizarre New Species Spotted in the Ocean Depths | 80beats

The browser you are currently using does not support the Discover photo galleries. Supported browsers include recent versions of Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 7 or later), Google Chrome, and Apple Safari.

If you have any questions or feedback, please email webmaster@discovermagazine.com. Thank you for reading Discover, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

The Aberdeen scientists drove unmanned underwater vehicles down to depths of nearly 12,000 feet to find this haul of life, including this sea cucumber.There's no escape from a basket star. This one would have used its web of tentacles to pull in plankton to eat.You can probably recognize this one as a jellyfish, but this one is something of a recluse—it forages for crustaceans near the seafloor.A sea cucumber, found 8,000 feet below the surface.


Related Posts

Comments are closed.