It’s easy to forget that beneath the sunlit waves, just past where the ocean’s blue turns to jet-black, lies a world teeming ...

Comparing our particle abundance size spectra with those observed previously in polyacrylamide gel-filled sediment traps allows us to estimate mesopelagic particle sinking rates. These results suggest ...

Where it lives: In the mesopelagic zone of the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans What it eats: Krill, plankton, crustaceans and squid Why it's awesome: According to Japanese myth ...