During a chaotic period some 50 million years ago, the strange deep-sea creatures left the ocean bottom and thrived by clamping onto their mates. During a chaotic period some 50 million years ago, the strange deep-sea creatures left the ocean bottom and thrived by clamping onto their mates. Fish and Other Marine Life, Reproduction (Biological), Evolution (Biology), Research, Current Biology (Journal), your-feed-science, your-feed-animals, internal-truncator NYT > Science