University of California researchers have gathered 350,000 observations on over 50,000 elephant seals over more than 60 years ...

An unprecedented sighting of a “black seadevil” fish in surface waters triggered a global outpouring of empathy for the deep ...

The video has provoked an enormously empathetic response on social media, with some seeing the fish as a feminist icon or an ...

Fish in the twilight zone are ecologically important prey for economically important species, Beltran says, adding that the realm they inhabit may soon become a fishery. But little is known about ...

A new study by marine biologists reports that seals can essentially act as 'smart sensors' for monitoring fish populations in the ocean's eerily dim 'twilight zone.' Over the past 60 years ...

Elephant seals primarily feed on twilight zone fish across large areas of the open ocean. Using data from satellite-tagged seals, Beltran et al. discovered a strong correlation between seal ...

Even relatively near the surface, the twilight zone is difficult to study, but it may hold more life than the rest of the world’s oceans combined. It’s home to the bristlemouth fish ...

Roxanne Beltran is next in line to lead the project, and her new study being published as the February 14 cover story for Science reports that seals can essentially act as “smart sensors” for ...

Scientists have a different idea of the twilight zone. To them, it’s an area of the open ocean where most fish live – depths of 650 to 3,200 feet. Little is known about this part of the ocean ...

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