The pelagic dark ocean (the water column >200 m deep) contains 70% of the ocean’s microbial cells and 60% of its heterotrophic activity, with a pivotal regulatory role in planetary ...

Sea angels — a type of swimming slug — that live in the open ocean are carnivorous little creatures that have evolved to feed ...

“Most of the biosphere — the living space on our planet — is in the deep sea pelagic realm, and that’s the part of the biosphere that we know the very least about," Vecchione explains to ...

Barreleyes, with their large transparent heads, are one of the rarest and “most peculiar and unknown fish groups in the deep-sea pelagic realm”, researchers say. Some barreleyes have special ...

Or perhaps more appropriately have the bomb. Osborn et al. report in Science seven previously unknown species (0.7 to 3.6 inches) of annelid worms hailing from the deep pelagic (>1800m). All the new ...