Dr. Van Houtan hopes that when visitors will discover that the ocean’s midnight zone is a part of our planet that is as worthy of protection as any other. “If people come away from this ...

The 2018 discovery of thousands of the eight-legged cephalopods about 2 miles below the ocean’s surface flummoxed ... down in what’s known as the midnight zone, a place of perpetual darkness.

A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean into a “Midnight Zone” where light barely reaches, but life still thrives. Scientists from the British-led ...

Every adaptation that Bathydevius has developed to live in the midnight zone ... and 13,100 feet (4,000 meters) below the ocean’s surface, is unique from other nudibranchs.