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 ...

In the sunlit surface ocean, known as the euphotic zone, phytoplankton fix carbon dioxide into organic matter. This process, called ocean productivity, is regulated by the supply of key nutrients ...

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 a ...

A team of researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has discovered a glowing “mystery mollusk” within the ocean's midnight zone. The species, named Bathydevius ...

Every adaptation that Bathydevius has developed to live in the midnight zone, classified as the deep ... and 13,100 feet (4,000 meters) below the ocean’s surface, is unique from other nudibranchs.

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 a sea ...