Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean's midnight zone: a glowing "mystery mollusk." Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as ...

Anglerfish first colonized the ocean's midnight zone 55 million years ago, during a period of extreme global warming, a new study finds. The bizarre fish adapted to thrive in the deep sea by ...

The midnight zone is cold and dark and very forbidding to us terrestrial creatures, yet it is filled with life, albeit life forms adapted to a very different set of challenges than we face.

It lives at an extreme depth of 1,000 to 4,000 meters, or 3,300 to 13,100 feet, below the surface in the ocean’s midnight zone, creating a unique challenge for scientists who’ve worked for ...

This places the species firmly in the midnight or bathypelagic zone, which is a pitch-black section of the deep ocean between 3,300 and 13,100 feet below the surface.

It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was actually a sea slug. By William J. Broad Bruce Robison, a marine ...

The midnight zone is cold and dark and very forbidding to us terrestrial creatures, yet it is filled with life, albeit life forms adapted to a very different set of challenges than we face.

Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean's midnight zone: a glowing "mystery mollusk." Although the apple-size species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is classified as ...