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Scientists Discovered 31 New Deep-Sea Species, and They’re All Extremely Weird

The new creatures include ghostly worms, glittering comb jellies, mucus-house builders, and giant single-celled organisms.

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The deep ocean keeps producing creatures that look like they were designed by someone who’d never seen an animal before, and scientists just added 31 more to the list.

An international research team aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Falkor (too) vessel spent time surveying the tropical midwaters of the South Atlantic, off the coast of Brazil, and came back with a pretty strange haul. The midwater zone sits between the sunlit surface and the deep ocean floor, and according to Science Alert, it’s the largest habitat on Earth—one that remains poorly understood despite covering most of the planet.

“The largest habitat on Earth, the midwater, is filled with incredible animals we are only just starting to........

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