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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Known to swim as deep as over a mile below the ocean ... food web brought on by events like El Nino or La Nina," the aquarium wrote in the Facebook post. The lancetfish is known as a "Twilight ...