Living fossil? A mushroom-shaped animal that defies current classification systems has been found living in the dark depths of the Tasman Sea. The animal could be a 'living fossil' from the ...

Mysterious animals discovered offshore Australia resemble floppy chanterelle mushrooms but feel like dollops of gelatin, according to a new study. The ocean-dwelling creatures are so unusual that an ...

Is it a mushroom? Is it a jellyfish? No, it’s Dendrogramma, a new animal so bizarre in appearance that it has defied attempts to place it anywhere in the vast animal kingdom. What is agreed is that ...

SYDNEY, Sept. 3 (UPI) --The animal kingdom may have to sprout a new subdivision to accommodate a strange deep sea creature that resembles a cross between a jellyfish and a mushroom. The strange ...

Marine biologists have identified two new species of sea-dwelling, mushroom-shaped creatures that don’t belong to any known taxonomic classification. Say hello to a completely new genus: Dendrogramma.

Introducing Dendrogramma, a deep sea creature that resembles a mushroom but has more affinity to a jellyfish. Photo: Just et al., PLOS ONE The deep sea harbors a rogues' gallery of outlandish ...

Marine biologists from the University of Copenhagen have discovered two new species that “defy all existing classifications of life.” They are rather cute and pretty—like some monsters from a Mario ...