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

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 ...

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 ...

Now, a new study suggests that elephant seals can serve as “smart sensors” for monitoring fish populations in the ocean’s twilight zone – the deep, dimly lit layer between 200 and 1,000 meters below ...

Now, researcher Roxanne Beltran is leading the project into a new phase. Her latest study, featured as the cover story in Science on February 13, reveals that elephant seals function as “smart sensors ...

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 ...

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

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 ...