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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imagine descending into the ocean’s deep, dark twilight zone, a realm straight out of science fiction. Here, in a place where ...

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.

The film about the “Twilight Zone” creator used locations around the Ocean State to help recreate moments in his life.

The twilight-zone fish migrate vertically, feeding on zooplankton in surface waters before returning to the ocean depths during the day. This vertical migration transports surface carbon to deep ...