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 ...

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.

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

This expedition marks a major leap forward in understanding our planet’s most overlooked reefs,” said Shannon Bennett.

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 ...

CORVALLIS, ORE. — An oxygen-depleted “dead zone” the size of New Jersey is starving sea life off the coast of Oregon and Washington and will probably appear there each summer as a result of climate ...

With no dissolved oxygen to sustain animals or plants, ocean anoxic zones are areas where only microbes suited to the environment can live. “You don’t get big fish,” said UC Santa Barbara ...

North Atlantic right whales were detected east of Ocean City, Md., in December 2025. Learn more about the 'Slow Zone' now in ...