Understanding the ocean depths is crucial for everything from laying ... has been finding the biggest gaps in seafloor knowledge, most often in the open sea and areas outside common shipping ...

Scientists have a different idea of the twilight zone. To them, it’s an area of the open ocean where most fish live – depths of 650 to 3,200 feet. Little is known about this part of the ocean ...

The 750,000-gallon Open Ocean exhibit houses hundreds of fish ... the aquarium provided a more in-depth education into the animals they had spotted underneath the water's surface.

Dark oxygen refers to oxygen produced at extreme ocean depths without the involvement of photosynthesis. This process occurs on the deep ocean floor, where light cannot penetrate. In 2024 ...

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...