A creature that spends its entire life in crushing darkness a kilometre beneath the waves appeared, alive, at the sunlit surface off Tenerife in 2025, and marine biologists are still debating what dragged it up from a world it was never meant to leave.

The appearance of a deep-sea creature that should have died in the pressure change raises a troubling question: what catastrophic force could bring something from the abyss back to the sun? The post A creature that spends its entire life in crushing darkness a kilometre beneath the waves appeared, alive, at the sunlit surface off Tenerife in 2025, and marine biologists are still debating what…