A new study by marine biologists reports that seals can essentially act as 'smart sensors' for monitoring fish populations in the ocean's eerily dim 'twilight zone.' Over the past 60 years ...

Scientists have a different idea of the twilight zone. To them, it’s an area of the open ocean where most fish live – depths ...

University of California researchers have gathered 350,000 observations on over 50,000 elephant seals over more than 60 years ...

Scientists have a different idea of the twilight zone. To them, it’s an area of the open ocean where most fish live – depths of 650 to 3,200 feet. Little is known about this part of the ocean ...

and her new study being published as the February 14 cover story for Science reports that seals can essentially act as “smart sensors” for monitoring fish populations in the ocean’s eerily dim ...

the elephant seals enter the "twilight zone" -- also known as the mesopelagic zone -- a layer of the ocean that extends from about 656 feet to 3,280 feet below the ocean's surface that is abundant ...

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

Fish in the twilight zone are ecologically important prey for ... and the likely possibility that seal pup quality is linked to ocean health through maternal foraging success.

Marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have discovered that northern elephant seals can serve as 'smart sensors' for monitoring fish populations in the ocean’s twilight zone. Seals' foraging ...