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Bathydevius caudactylus is the first nudibranch known to inhabit the bathypelagic zone, up to thousands of meters under the ocean.As you fall, the Sun becomes smaller, and dimmer, and dimmer still. The cold waters crush in around you as the pressure increases. Now you're in complete darkness, so deep that the sunlight can't reach you. Then, astonishingly, you see a flicker of light, from a creature unlike any humans have seen before.
This behavior seems defensive: on one occasion, the researchers saw one of the tendrils on the slug's tail glow steadily while rotating, eventually detaching and floating free, similar to the way a lizard might drop its tail in a bid to distract a predator.
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