Blue shark (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Blue shark — Caption

A new study demonstrates that large predatory fishes like sharks, tunas and billfish make a surprising number of visits to the deep ocean—particularly the ocean’s twilight zone, which has been overlooked as critical habitat for large predator species.

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Blue shark offshore, Cape Cod/© Eric Savetsky

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