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31 Otherworldly New Deep-Sea Species Photographed with Cutting-Edge Camera Technology<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-13 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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A female octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) consumes a jellyfish at 2624 meters depth. This species is rarely seen alive, and most of what is known about it has been determined from specimens caught in trawl nets.| Image credit: ROV SuBastian \/ Schmidt Ocean Institute <\/p>\n

Scientists discovered and photographed 31 new deep-sea species \u2014 typically too delicate to document \u2014 in a matter of days using cutting-edge camera technology. <\/p>\n

An international team of midwater specialists aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute\u2019s research vessel Falkor has identified more than two dozen previously unknown marine species during a two-week expedition in the tropical South Atlantic off the coast of Brazil.<\/p>\n

The scientists used these advanced technologies to explore the Ocean\u2019s midwater \u2014 the water between the sunlit layer and the seafloor \u2014 which is Earth\u2019s largest and least explored habitable ecosystem.<\/p>\n

\"AThe team collected footage of this siphonophore at 552 meters depth. | Credit: ROV SuBastian \/ Schmidt Ocean Institute <\/p>\n

The list of newly identified species includes an amphipod, a crustacean related to crabs and lobsters; a gossamer worm that moves faster than scientists expected given its body shape; nine jellyfish; seven siphonophores (colonial organisms related to jellyfish and corals); seven comb jellies, or ctenophores, known for the shimmering cilia they use to swim; four larvaceans, tadpole-like animals that live inside mucus \u201chouses\u201d and are more closely related to humans than to invertebrates; and two giant rhizarians, single-celled organisms that are visible to the naked eye.<\/p>\n

The team also observed far greater diversity and abundance in midwater life than expected, including glass squid and a pelagic octopus feeding on a bright red jellyfish.<\/p>\n

\"AThis is a new species from the genus Tomopteris, commonly known as gossamer worms. Little is known about their lives despite prior studies of their unusual, brilliant yellow bioluminescence. | Image credit: ROV…
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