This zone contains a vast amount of marine life, potentially over 90% of all ocean life, and supports important commercial and recreational fisheries. Creatures in the twilight zone help mitigate ...

Did you know that the deep ocean can produce oxygen without the need of solar light nor photosynthesis? According to a study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, ...

Deep-sea mining is threatening vital marine life in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” reveals new research. The findings raise "urgent concerns" about long-lasting effects if large-scale commercial mining ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with mid-sized fish such as the bigscale pomfret, which live deep during the ...

In 2024, researchers made a groundbreaking discovery in the Pacific Ocean's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, finding that oxygen increased over two days to more than three times the background concentration ...

The bathypelagic zone of the ocean is 1,000 to 4,000 meters below the surface. Sometimes it's called the midnight zone because it's too deep for sunlight to reach. Most animals here are much smaller ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

As delegates from member states of the International Seabed Authority entered the third and final week of high-stakes negotiations on deep-sea mining, they condemned a move made earlier this year by ...