Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of ...

“There’s many different kinds of fish and many of them are unknown.” Rocha, whose studies focus on ocean life between 200 and 500 feet deep, was attracted to twilight zone reefs because of ...

While scientists tend to agree that the mesopelagic zone is critical for the carbon cycle in the ocean, it’s still unclear how much carbon mesopelagic fish take in and sequester. “We know that ...

The ocean is separated into layers with the surface layer (or sunlight zone) reaching down to 660 ... But it’s a great threat ...

Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

World Oceans Day is June 8, a global day of celebrating and committing to protecting the ocean and marine resources that sustain us. This year’s theme is “Sustainable Fishing Means More…,” suggesting ...

Fish species that can’t cope with ... soup that you that you cannot live in,” says Pauly. The ocean already has sporadic hypoxic zones, he says, “but you could imagine all the dead zones ...

Another takeaway from the institution’s Ocean Twilight Zone project: If you fish out the zone or shut down the pump, you would likely see double the amount of carbon dioxide that humans have ...

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660 ...