The twilight zone, or mesopelagic layer, is a hauntingly beautiful stretch of ocean where light diminishes ... the lifeblood of countless oceanic food chains. They feed on plankton, tiny ...

(Octopuses and squids switch camouflage mode to stay invisible in the twilight zone.) What look like strawberry ... playing a key part in the ocean’s food web. “They support a lot of fishery ...

"The rich variety of twilight zone life evolved in the last few million years, when ocean waters had cooled enough to act rather like a fridge, preserving the food for longer, and improving ...

With each rotation, the trawl net is lowered deeper and deeper into the sea, and somewhere between 200 and 1,000 meters below the surface in what is known as the mesopelagic twilight zone ...

Life in the ocean's twilight zone ... is warmer bacteria can break down food more quickly, meaning less food manages to reach the depths of the twilight zone from the surface.

“In these warm periods, far fewer organisms lived in the twilight zone, because much less food arrived from surface waters.” Particles of organic matter from the ocean’s surface drift down ...

The catalog, described in the journal Frontiers in Science, is an open-source digital library of genetic codes from the ocean’s organisms ... of the oceanic “twilight zone.” ...

It's a rule of thumb -- or fin -- for the ocean: The deeper ... Still other inhabitants of the twilight zone move in and out of their strange home every day for food, in what ARTECHOUSE calls ...

A 3D model comparing the diving information with acoustic data for the daily migration of fish, mollusks, crustaceans and other species from the ocean’s “twilight zone” during the day to ...