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

Imagine plunging into a world where sunlight barely penetrates, and the darkness is suddenly broken by mysterious flashes of ...

The ocean twilight zone, also known as the mesopelagic zone, is a layer of the ocean located between 200 and 1,000 meters ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

Sensing the Ocean,” a new, interactive exhibition at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Discovery Center, opened on ...

A rare, fanged deep-sea lancetfish washed ashore in Seaside last Wednesday, startling beachgoers. The creepy, cannibalistic ...

Researchers have compiled the a new database of accounts of “milky seas,” pairing historic reports with satellite ...

Explore the phenomenon of glowing ocean events known as milky seas, created by bioluminescent bacteria visible from space.

The researchers were aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel named the Falkor ... This is in the mesopelagic ...

MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight zone — a cold, dark layer about half a mile below the surface.