Fish living in the twilight zone not only form an important part of predators’ diets, including king penguins and seals, but also play a vital role in the ocean’s carbon cycle.

The barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) is known for its strange eyes and transparent dome for a head head — features that make it look more like a creature from science fiction than reality.

Off the coast of the Maldives, the coral reef “twilight zone” is buzzing with life. This section of reef — categorized as coral reefs at depths between 100 and 500 feet — provides safety and refuge to ...

The 6cm fish was found in the ‘twilight zone’, 200ft beneath the ocean's surface off the coast of Zanzibar, Tanzania. In a research that was published on Science Daily on July 11, the ...

The twilight zone, also known as the disphotic zone, is a vital habitat for marine life. It is too dim for photosynthesis to occur but home to more fish than the rest of the ocean put together ...

The deep ocean, referred to as the “twilight zone”, is enormously mysterious. Acting as the eyes and ears of the scientists, Boaty went there on the longest journey yet for its class of submarine.

"Twilight Zone: Hidden Wonders of the Ocean" was jointly created by ARTECHOUSE ... of sunlight force life into odd shapes for survival. Fish develop bioluminescence on their underbellies to ...

One of the most infamous creatures of the abyss is the Humboldt squid. For The Deep episode, we wanted to spend time with these animals in THEIR world – the depths of the Twilight Zone, between ...

Lantern-fish are small ... live between the surface and 1000m deep within the so-called “twilight zone”, and in the Southern Ocean, they are a major consumer of krill – small, shrimp ...