Welcome to the twilight zone. It’s a real place — but under the sea. The mesopelagic zone, also known as the “twilight zone,” is a mysterious region of the ocean between 200 and 1,000 meters in depth.

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to ...

Much of the shark focus around the Cape is on great whites roaming close to the shoreline as they prowl for seals, but researchers are finding out that several sharks are actually diving deep into the ...

If you've seen one ocean, you've seen them all. Seriously. That's just one of the big ideas you might take away from the Sant Ocean Hall, the National Museum of Natural History's new permanent ...

The big idea — The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. The driving force comes from tiny plankton that produces organic carbon through photosynthesis, like plants on land. When ...

“Did the Atlantic close and then reopen?” That was the question posed in a 1966 paper by the Canadian geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson. The answer? Yes, over millions of years. And it was the breakup of ...

PLYMOUTH, England — Earth’s oceans are losing light, and it’s happening so fast that scientists are calling it one of the planet’s largest unnoticed habitat collapses. Over the past 20 years, an area ...

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink for climate... The ocean's currents are shifting. Why? A warming climate ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The permanent darkness of the ocean depths is home to a far greater range of animals, from luminous jellyfish to tubeworms that live off oil seeping from the seabed, than previously ...

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