The glass squid's method of camouflaging involves using transparency. There are around 60 species of glass squid.

MiCO database reveals how marine animals traverse oceans, connecting distant regions and impacting conservation efforts.

a hidden ecosystem that begins 200 meters below the ocean surface and sustains life across our planet. It includes the twilight zone and the midnight zone, where strange and delicate animals thrive in ...

Deep-sea mining could unleash clouds of debris that threaten a mysterious, vital ecosystem we barely understand.

One ambitious company has a plan to establish a colony of adventurous humans beneath the sea, but scientists have some doubts ...

Melting polar ice narrows the light spectrum underwater, favoring blue-tuned algae and disrupting the ocean food web.

The ocean twilight zone, often called the mesopelagic zone, lies between 200 and 1,000 meters below the surface. Sunlight grows ... billions of bioluminescent animals make one of the planet ...

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four ... pathogen that eats away at the animals’ soft tissue and makes ...

Of the Kiks.adi Clan of Sitka, Ixt’Ik’Eesh has been harvesting herring fish eggs for most of his life. His earliest ...

Even in the “twilight zone”—the depths where sunlight gradually ... which live in every ocean, from just below the surface to right near the floor. The insect-like animals are masters ...