One glow-in-the-dark animal is the swell shark. Swell sharks are shy shark species that aren't dangerous. Swell sharks are bioflourescent, which is why they glow. But that's not the only trick ...

The shark lives in the dimly lit "twilight zone" of the ocean, and may glow to camouflage itself as it hunts. Jerome Mallefet was about to call it quits. For a month, he had worked 12-hour shifts ...

Scientists have taken the first ever photos of a glow-in-the-dark shark producing its own light. The kitefin shark, Dalatias licha, is the world’s largest known bioluminescent vertebrate ...

You know those little glow-in-the-dark stars that dot the ceilings of children’s rooms? Yeah, I didn’t have stars. Instead, I had little glowing dolphins, starfish, and sharks “swimming ...

A tiny shark captured in the Gulf of Mexico was identified as a new species of pocket shark that shoots glow-in-the-dark fluid from pouches near its gills, researchers said. A team of ...

It gets weirder, Rummer said: “They’re bioluminescent too — they glow.” Cookiecutter sharks (Isistius brasiliensis) grow as large as 20 inches long. Because they’re small and live in ...

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie: a glow-in-the-dark shark. And we’re not talking about a part of the shark or their defensive dorsal fin spines glowing, like some deep-sea sharks ...

Its scientific name is Etmopterus benchleyi, after the shark conservationist and Jaws ... All lanternsharks glow as a form of camouflage, called counter elimination, that helps diminish its ...

Case in point: Scientists recently confirmed that three shark species found in New Zealand glow in the dark. Marine biologist Jérôme Mallefet and his team from the Université Catholique de ...

Swell sharks don’t generate their own light, but they glow through a technique called biofluorescence. This means they absorb sunlight and transform it within their bodies, emitting it as a ...