The sunlight zone, the twilight zone ... This is where the wide range of temperatures occur. Most marine animals live in this zone and feed off of photoplankton (the basis of the ocean food ...

Floating around this dark and eerie place are fascinating animals with the ability to create their own light in the murky depths. It’s called the twilight zone, and it’s so deep that sunlight ...

unique mutations The animals live at a depth of about 650 to 3,300 feet (200 to 1,000 meters), a dim region known as the mesopelagic twilight zone, which only weak sunlight can reach. Claes and ...

Experts used satellite imaging and computer models to study how light penetrates the ocean. They focused on the photic zone — ...

Now, a team of researchers is working to change that with a portable device that transports creatures of the so-called mesophotic zone to the surface in one piece—that is, without causing their ...

For instance, a variety of plants and animals thrive in the epipelagic, or sunlight, zone—the top layer of water, where light is strong and pressure is relatively low. But sunlight typically ...