Strange sea creatures

Set against the stark backdrops attainable only during blackwater dives, larval fish become strange, otherworldly specimens with glasslike bodies and translucent fins that billow outward. Their delicate, still-developing anatomies are the subjects of Steven Kovacs’s underwater photos, which frame the young creatures at such precarious stages of life.

Tim Flach's Photographs of Endangered Animals Are Sad, Beautiful. Let these 180 full-color photos serve as a wakeup call

Sea angels are named after their resemblance to snow angels - they have translucent white bodies, with a wing-like structure on both sides of their body. Although they may look like snow angels, they are actually a large group of extremely small, swimming sea slugs!

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen have discovered ten possibly new species of deep sea creatures in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. “It seemed like we were in a scene from Alice Through the Looking Glass,” lead researcher Monty Pried said. “This expedition has revolutionized our thinking about deep-sea life in the Atlantic Ocean. It shows that we cannot just study what lives around the edges of the ocean and ignore the vast array of animals living on the slopes and valleys in the middle of…