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Posts Tagged ‘creatures’

Bringing Light into Darkness

By Kathryn Baltes | May 24, 2019
Floating jelly

Oceanographers studying creatures in the ocean twilight zone are facing an optical dilemma. They need to observe the fish in order to…

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An opportunity to explore a new place

By Katherine Joyce | March 28, 2019
Heidi Sosik enters the ocean in manned submersible

Highlights from the latest Ocean Twilight Zone Project cruise to the Bahamas An opportunity to explore a new place Several…

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Mesobot, Follow that Jellyfish! New robot will track animals in the ocean twilight zone

By Kathryn Baltes | March 13, 2019
Illustration of Mesobot robot, an oblong yellow shape

The idea for the Mesobot sprang from a somewhat tongue-in-cheek request. Dana Yoerger, a scientist and engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was having a chat with his WHOI colleague Larry Madin—a marine biologist. Madin spent much of his career scuba diving to get close to his research subjects: gelatinous animals such as jellyfish and salps.

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What Lives in the Ocean’s Twilight Zone? New Technologies Might Finally Tell Us

By Ken Kostel | August 24, 2018

Science Magazine

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Meet 6 Bewitching, Rarely Seen Creatures from the Ocean’s Twilight Zone

By Ken Kostel | August 23, 2018
Jellly

IDEAS.TED.COM

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