10 New Deep-Sea Creatures

Some of the below ten new possible species are so strange, it is hard to know which direction they swim or where their mouths are.

The images were captured by researchers with a remotely operated vehicle between 2,300 feet and 12,000 feet deep along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the largest mountain range on Earth, which runs down the center of the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and Africa on the east and the Americas on the west.

Three of the species, which look like colorful wavy worms, belong to a group of creatures called Enteropneust, which is believed to be the evolutionary link between backbone and invertebrate animals. Previously only a few specimens of the group, from the Pacific Ocean, were known to science.

Read the article to learn more about each creature.

Original article here.