The OceanX team suggested their sonar image showed an object with unusual features of seemingly non-natural origin.
In the second Ocean Species Discoveries collection, more than 20 researchers described 14 new marine invertebrate species and two new genera.
MBARI researchers first observed the 'mystery mollusc' (Bathydevius caudactylus) in February 2000 during a dive with the remotely operated vehicle Tiburon offshore of Monterey Bay at 2,614 meters (8,576 feet) deep.
Cryptozoologists do not follow the scientific method when investigating animals most scientists believe are unlikely to have existed.
The deep Atlantic contains some of the world's oldest and most spectacular cold-water coral reefs and deep-sea sponge grounds, which depend on ocean currents to deliver food and disperse offspring.
The team that discovered the Baltic Sea anomaly suggested the sonar image showed an object with unusual features of seemingly non-natural origin.
Cryptozoology has been widely critiqued by scientists.
Cryptozoologists focus their research on entities mentioned in folklore records and rumors.
The Pacific 'Blob' marine heatwave coincided with unexpected die-offs of California sea lions, Guadalupe fur seals, common murres, and Cassin's auklets.
The Baltic Sea anomaly was discovered while the OceanX team was treasure hunting on the floor of the northern Baltic Sea.
The 2017 article about this swimming dinosaur discovery was written by science journalist Ed Yong for The Atlantic.
MBARI technology has been used to document more than 250 deep-sea species previously unknown to science.
A marine heat wave nicknamed 'The Blob' lasted three years and disrupted ecosystems and fisheries along North America's Pacific coast.
Biologists identify new species by following established scientific methodology, in contrast to cryptozoologists.
Italian researchers released 150,000 baby octopuses into the Adriatic Sea as an effort to fight invasive crabs.
The immortal jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, can revert from adulthood back to its polyp stage when threatened by danger or starvation.
Bathydevius caudactylus is only the third known instance of bioluminescence evolving in nudibranchs and the seventh known instance among gastropods.
Cryptozoology claims that cryptids may exist somewhere in the wild despite lack of scientific substantiation.
Bathydevius caudactylus is the first nudibranch known to live in the deep water column.
Charles William Hobley claimed in his 1913 article to have encountered further accounts of creatures similarly described to the dingonek.
Scientists have criticized cryptid plausibility due to lack of physical evidence, likely misidentifications, and misinterpretation of folklore stories.
The carnivorous bivalve species Myonera aleutiana was found at depths between 5,170 and 5,280 meters, about 800 meters deeper than any previously known specimen of its genus.
Cryptozoologists are criticized for not following the scientific method when investigating alleged cryptids.
Fossilized skin from a juvenile Diplodocus discovered at Montana's Mother's Day Quarry preserved melanosomes revealing that its scales had conspicuous patterns rather than being uniformly gray or brown.
Academic discourse on hypothesized alien behavior draws upon evolutionary biology, game theory, and sociology.
Regional sea-level anomalies can indicate unusual water temperatures, salinities, average monthly winds, atmospheric pressures, and/or coastal currents.
Cryptozoology is classified as a pseudoscience by mainstream science.
Certain marine clams can live for more than 500 years.
Bioinformatic analysis identified nearly 30,000 species of Obelisks in biological samples collected worldwide, including soils, rivers, oceans, wastewater, and animal microbiomes.
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood; two hearts pump blood to the gills while the third pumps it to the rest of the body.
