It lives in the Pacific Ocean's mesopelagic (twilight) zone at depths from 660 to 1,800 feet (200 to 550 meters). The Japanese spider crab has 10 legs, eight of which it uses for walking ...

The ocean, like the atmosphere, has strata. Vampire squid live in the mesopelagic zone of the open ocean, which starts where the sunny, productive epipelagic zone at the surface ends, down at ...