Photo Credit: NASA Oxygen-starved ocean “dead zones,” where fish and animals cannot survive, have been expanding in the open ocean and coastal waters for several decades as a result of human ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

See Tierney Thys' full Q&A » As invisible pollutants infiltrate our water, much of that water ends up flowing straight into our coastal zones ... where open-ocean animals spend their time.

"Given the importance of the ocean for carbon sequestration ... paper demonstrating how these animals can provide a wealth of useful data. The twilight zone is growing in importance since ...

Like most animals, well-fed seal mothers give birth ... Elephant seals as ecosystem sentinels for the Northeast Pacific Ocean twilight zone. Science, 387(6735), 764-769. doi:10.1126/science ...