down in what’s known as the midnight zone, a place of perpetual darkness. The octopus garden — found on a small hill near the base of Davidson Seamount, an extinct underwater volcano 80 miles ...

BARCELONA, Spain 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.

Every adaptation that Bathydevius has developed to live in the midnight zone, classified as the deep waters that exist between 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) and 13,100 feet (4,000 meters) below the ...