MOSS LANDING, CA--Throughout the world ocean, animals congregate at certain depths, forming layers that can be hundreds of meters thick and may extend horizontally for dozens or even hundreds of ...

Group formation in animals is a widespread phenomenon driven by food acquisition, reproduction, and defense. Life in the ocean is characteristically aggregated into horizontally extensive layers as a ...

Risso’s dolphins have been observed to perform a rapid sprint coupled with a spin when starting a dive, even though this highly energetic movement costs considerably more energy than normal, much ...

Throughout the world ocean, animals congregate at certain depths. A new paper shows that, rather than consisting of a random mixture of animals, these deep-scattering layers contain discrete groups of ...