An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive ... where 'dead zones' can reach the size of New Jersey. Photo Credit: ...

These include the sunlight zone (epipelagic), the twilight zone (mesopelagic), the midnight zone (bathypelagic), the abyssal zone (abyssopelagic), and the hadal zone (trenches) ...

Imagine a world where sunlight barely penetrates, where darkness reigns and strange, glowing creatures drift silently through ...

Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

Preserving the bioluminescent highways is about more than saving strange creatures—it’s about protecting the intricate web that connects all life on Earth. The ocean twilight zone remains one ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 200 ...

It's generally thought that the zone got its name from its liminal state: a murky space where the last rays of sunlight can reach ...

Melting polar ice narrows the light spectrum underwater, favoring blue-tuned algae and disrupting the ocean food web.