The midnight zone never sees sunlight yet hosts active food webs
Below about a thousand meters, sunlight fades to permanent night. Animals here hunt by bioluminescence, smell, and pressure-tuned senses rather than vision alone.
Food arrives mostly as marine snow and migrating prey from above; predators stretch jaws, light lures, and slow metabolisms to match scarcity.
Darkness is not emptiness. The midnight zone runs a full ecology on leftovers and light made by living cells.
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