Bioluminescent creatures are lighting up the long polar night in unexpected ways
When the last rays of sunlight hit Arctic communities in October, disappearing until the following March, so too do the lights go out under the surface of the Arctic Ocean. This polar night, or four months of continuous darkness, has long been assumed to be a period of hibernation for life in the ocean’s depths, causing tiny animals at the base of the food chain to die off. But new research challenges the dark stereotype of the ocean’s twilight zone.
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