Explore the Mysterious Ocean Twilight Zone

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A vast hidden layer of the sea teeming with strange life between sunlight and darkness

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The Ocean Twilight Zone begins around 200 meters below the surface where sunlight fades fast

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It stretches to about 1000 meters deep filled with ghostly creatures and bioluminescent life

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This zone is home to millions of fish that migrate daily in the world’s largest movement

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Creatures here glow in the dark using bioluminescence to hunt hide and attract mates

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Water pressure in this zone is crushing and temperatures are near freezing

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Strange species like lanternfish hatchetfish and siphonophores dominate the twilight world

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This zone plays a key role in Earth’s carbon cycle absorbing carbon from the atmosphere

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Scientists believe the twilight zone may hold more fish biomass than all fisheries combined

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But climate change and deep sea fishing are now threatening this hidden ecosystem

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