Imagine plunging into a world where sunlight barely penetrates, and the darkness is suddenly broken by mysterious flashes of ...

The twilight, or mesopelagic, zone — the layer of ocean water that extends 200–1000 meters (656–3280 feet) deep — is an inhospitable place. “It’s completely dark, it’s extremely cold ...

How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some surprisingly long-distance dives.

The researchers studied tissue from over 120 fish. They found that 50 to 60 percent of their diet came from ocean’s twilight ...

It passed through the Mesopelagic Zone (600-3,300 feet), also referred to as the "Twilight Zone," and continued well into the Bathypelagic Zone (3,300-13,000 feet), or the "Midnight Zone." ...

Comparing our particle abundance size spectra with those observed previously in polyacrylamide gel-filled sediment traps allows us to estimate mesopelagic particle sinking ... flux through the ocean’s ...

Clusters with large particles in the mesopelagic layer corresponded to surface waters ... of the phytoplankton community and integrated chlorophyll a in the euphotic zone. We found that coefficient k ...