Posts Tagged ‘Biodiversity’
A Tunnel to the Twilight Zone
WHOI News & Insights
Read MoreBringing Light into Darkness
Oceanographers studying creatures in the ocean twilight zone are facing an optical dilemma. They need to observe the fish in order to…
Read MoreRound Up the Unusual Suspects: DNA forensics identifies unknown deep-sea organisms
Annette Govindarajan is a kind of marine detective. She tracks down animals living in different parts of the ocean. For her, the largely unexplored ocean twilight zone—the vast, dimly lit region 650 to 3,280 feet (200 to 1,000 meters) below the surface—still harbors many species yet to be discovered and identified.
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