Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

A new study suggests that elephant seals can serve as “smart sensors” for monitoring fish populations in the ocean’s twilight ...

In the real world, twilight zones are any indefinite boundary, the fuzzy line between one state and another, or a place where ...

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.

Elephant seals are now key players in ocean research. Fitted with smart sensors, these massive marine mammals are helping ...

By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations.

A new study by marine biologists reports that seals can essentially act as 'smart sensors' for monitoring fish populations in ...

The ocean's twilight zone lies between 200 and 1,000 meters below the surface, where light starts to fade but is not ...

Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean’s twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new study, these deep-diving creatures can help estimate ...

Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean's twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new ...

Sunlight, the lifeblood of the ocean’s surface ... Beyond this limit lies the twilight zone, where light begins to fade, and further still, the midnight zone, where the Sun’s rays never ...