His hand on a toggle switch and his eyes on a computer screen, Oregon State University graduate student Anthony Kirincich uses an array of scientific instruments to probe the vibrant waters of the ...

A large robot, loaded with sensors and cameras, designed to explore the ocean twilight zone. Marine Imaging Technologies, LLC © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...

Welcome to the twilight zone. It’s a real place — but under the sea. The mesopelagic zone, also known as the “twilight zone,” is a mysterious region of the ocean between 200 and 1,000 meters in depth.

One day in the late 1980s, Denise Breitburg was diving on an oyster reef in Chesapeake Bay when she swam onto a scene of utter devastation. The bay’s floor was littered with the carcasses of fish and ...

The oceans cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface. The marine ecosystem is the largest and most abundant in the world. But most of the ocean is permanently dark and incredibly difficult to observe. As ...

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 ...

Oregon State University biologist Francis Chan’s scientific career began when he was a postdoctoral researcher preparing for his first research cruise off the coast of Oregon and he got a call that ...

Persistent lack of oxygen in Earth’s oceans affected animal evolution Photo of Little Horse Canyon near Orr Ridge, Utah. The oceans became oxygen-rich as they are today about 600 million years ago, ...

Before the perpetual dark of the deep sea, in the space at the final reaches of daylight, is the ocean twilight zone. It is one of the final frontiers for Earth exploration, and as researchers delve ...