More than 200 feet (60 meters) below the ocean's surface, where the water is cold and only about 1 percent of the daylight above penetrates, is a dim, blue world filled with little-understood ...

As marine biologist Nicola Foster and her colleagues steered a remote-controlled submersible through the coral reefs of the ... oceanographers call the “twilight zone,” some corals had turned ...

Deep underwater in the ocean's twilight zone feet below the surface ... typically need sunlight and shallow warmth to thrive — coral. A group of scientist divers discovered a massive reef ...

lies the twilight zone. It’s a world of the unknown, but in some tropical and subtropical waters coral reefs thrive. Very few scientists have ventured to these deep reefs, known technically as ...

Off the coast of the Maldives, the coral reef “twilight zone” is buzzing with life. This section of reef — categorized as coral reefs at depths between 100 and 500 feet — provides safety ...

Many creatures from the ocean's mysterious 'twilight zone' could be wiped out by the end of this century in the midst of worsening climate change. Scientists warn that life in the deepest and ...

To survey hard-to-reach mesophotic -- or 'twilight zone' -- coral reefs that exist between 100 and 500 feet (30 and 150 meters) deep, researchers relied on specialized diving gear that few other ...