'An ancient, complex, and very serious game is going on': The weird ways creatures feed in the open ocean

A purple and orange translucent sea angel floating through black.

In this excerpt from "Into the Great Wide Ocean: Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth" (Princeton University Press, 2024), author Sönke Johnsen looks at dinner in the deep, where creatures living in the open ocean have evolved weird ways to feed — and to avoid getting eaten in an ecosystem where there is nowhere to hide.

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