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Photos reveal strange sea creatures that scientists have never seen before

A species of chimaera — aka a ghost shark — is among the 1,121 species scientists say they recently discovered as part of a marine exploration mission called Ocean Census. | The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/CSIRO It lives in a glass castle deep under the sea. It’s not a character from The Little Mermaid but a very real, very mysterious marine worm. Known as Dalhousiella yabukii, the worm resides inside a glass sea sponge — a simple marine animal that forms a glass-like skeleton — in the cold, dark waters off the coast of Japan. And it’s just one of a massive trove of marine...