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It is hard to describe what it's like to physically travel down to the twilight zone. In addition to extraordinary bioluminescence, Heidi Sosik, senior scien...
Why do all the pictures you take underwater look blandly blue-green? The answer has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak, an oceangoing...
Meet fish ecologist and photographer, Paul Caiger as he explains how he brings together his passion for the Ocean Twilight Zone and photography. This was par...
Roger Hanson is the Seahorse Whisperer. The diver tends to a herd of seahorses living off the coast of Long Beach, California. It's rare for the fish to stra...
Mesobot is a brand new underwater vehicle designed to reveal what lives in the ocean's twilight zone. Mesobot can follow animals as they move through the dar...
Meet WHOI technician, Helena McMonagle, and learn how research is conducted in the Twilight Zone using MOCNESS. This was part of a mission in spring of 2019 ...
A research team tries to unlock the secrets of underwater vision and camouflage. Roger Hanlon is one of the world's foremost experts on one of the planet's m...
Most life forms in the twilight zone are tiny-a few inches or less-but even the smallest twilight zone inhabitants are powerful through sheer number. Joel Ll...
Members of WHOI's Ocean Twilight Zone team, particularly the lab led by marine biologist Annette Govindarajan, are pioneering the use of environmental DNA (e...