Scary Looking Deep Sea Fish Discovered in 'Midnight Zone' of Ocean. Ceratioid anglerfish has some pole-like growth coming out of its head. By ABC News. August 6, 2015, 2:47 PM.

Most marine animals live in this zone and feed off of photoplankton (the basis of the ocean food chain) and smaller fish. ... The Midnight Zone. This zone extends from 3,280 feet to 13,125 feet.

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube What has needle-like teeth so large they don’t fit inside its mouth, a huge gaping jaw that completely engulfs its prey, and lives in the ocean zone ...

Food in the midnight zone is hard to come by, so the anglerfish’s appendage also looks and acts like “a fishing pole of sorts,” said a statement from researchers.

Usually, the only light in the midnight zone is produced by some fish that are bioluminescent, which is to say, they glow in the dark. At that depth, the water pressure is a crushing 2,200 pounds ...

In a new study, data from 12 species of large predatory fish, including sharks, billfish and tunas showed they regularly spent time in the mesopelagic zone — also known as the twilight zone ...

It showed the fish made “regular excursions” to the mesopelagic zone, also known as the twilight zone, between 200 and 1000 metres below the ocean surface, as well as the midnight zone, 1000 ...

Animals that live in the midnight zone are quite weird. ... has been around for 125 million years. Giant isopods (ocean pill bugs) ... unless you’re a fish.

The midnight zone is located between 1,000 metres and 4,000 metres below the surface. As natural light is quickly absorbed by water, it cannot reach a depth greater than about 1,000 metres ...

A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean into a “Midnight Zone” where light barely reaches, but life still thrives. Scientists from the British-led ...

Its range is anywhere from 655 to 5,000 feet deep, which includes the twilight and midnight ocean zones. In these deep zones, the water is cold and the sunlight is very faint to nonexistent.