"With their unique traits like bioluminescent lures and large oral ... of adaptive radiation in the resource-limited bathypelagic zone," said Evans, a co-corresponding author on the paper and ...

Such a depth is known as the Bathypelagic Zone, or the "midnight zone," where animals live in constant darkness and the only light comes from bioluminescence. Female black seadevils, such as the ...

The study site located in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea was visited nine times in 2005-2006 to collect water samples from the epipelagic (5 m), mesopelagic (200 m, 600 m), and bathypelagic (1000 ...

It passed through the Mesopelagic Zone (600-3,300 feet), also referred to as the "Twilight Zone," and continued well into the Bathypelagic ... and eels that utilize bioluminescence for light ...