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 ...

Phytoplankton is essential for maintaining balance in the marine food chain ... However, an ocean layer below the surface called the "twilight zone" (where light is unavailable) can also affect ...

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 ...

sink to the twilight zone. There, most of it becomes food for fish and bacteria. The rest drifts down to the deep ocean floor where it is locked away in sediment. Organisms called phaeodarians ...

“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 ...

Dr Crichton continued: '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 ...

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 ...

To most of us, the ocean is a no man’s land ... fishing fleets to grind life in the twilight zone into fish meal, fertilizer and plant food. Before they move forward with these plans ...

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 ...