The mysterious depths of our oceans harbor some of nature’s most fascinating phenomena – bioluminescent sea creatures that ...

The deep ocean’s eternal darkness conceals an extraordinary phenomenon—bioluminescence, the biological production of light.

Some creatures in nature don’t just hide in their surroundings– they actually glow. This glow, called bioluminescence, is a ...

Soft coral species in the deep sea exhibit bioluminescence, which researchers studied using remote-controlled underwater rovers. Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on ...

"We often think that the deep sea ... in the dark — is abundant in marine life including in fish, corals, jellyfish and crustaceans. On land, the phenomenon is found in many animals, including ...

The glow-in-the-dark species ranged from corals and mollusks to fish and crustaceans. Images from the paper of a Scorpaenopsis possi fish (left) and a Lybia tessellata crab (right). These animals ...

Photo shows a representative ocean. Photo from Cristian Palmer via Unsplash Deep below the surface of the South China Sea, a glow-in-the-dark creature swam through shadowy waters. Suddenly ...

Quattrini has spent about a decade testing living octocorals collected from the ocean by sequestering the creatures under a blanket or in a dark room and nudging them with a pair of laboratory ...

Some intriguing creatures in the animal kingdom can glow. Although most of us are familiar with fireflies, the majority of glowing animals actually reside in the depths of the ocean. Native to ...

They named two of them after glowing creatures in Japanese folklore, and the other after the former director of Notojima Aquarium who helped find the worms. A research group from Nagoya University ...

Formerly known as the 'mystery mollusk,' this glow ... sea. Credit: Robison et al, Oceanographic Research Papers/DOI 10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104414 When scientists spotted a strange, hooded creature ...

Deep below the surface of the South China Sea, a glow-in-the-dark creature swam through shadowy waters. Suddenly, something enveloped the sea creature and pulled it upward. On the surface ...