2.8M views · 19K reactions | Correction: This species is a dorid, not an aeolid. The appendage is a gill plume used for respiration—not a cerata. Unlike other mollusks, these colorful sea slugs don't have shells or gills. | National Geographic | Facebook

Wake up, babe. New MBARI species just dropped. 🤩🙌🏽 MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean’s midnight zone and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence. With a voluminous hooded structure at one end, a flat tail fringed with numerous finger-like projections at the other, and colorful internal organs in between, the team initially struggled to place this animal in a group. Because the ani