Suddenly the dark waters lit up with a “starry”-looking glow. The source? An unusual new species of deep-sea animal. “Everyone in the control room let out a loud ‘Oooooh!’ at the same time.

Hinea brasiliana has a pair of organs that give off a bright glow. Many sea animals have this ability but the snail’s living torches are permanently hidden. They sit underneath the hard shell ...

Researchers have just found a fluorescent anemone deep ... sea anemones, was found 500 metres beneath the waves in the Gulf of Mexico. Image: Jörg Wiedenmann The tube anemone’s tentacles glow ...

A group of Humboldt squid swim in formation about 200 meters below the surface of Monterey Bay MBARI The deep sea is vast ... They make the whole animal glow.” The research team looked to ...

(See pictures of other animals that glow.) The catsharks generally live deep enough that they are bathed ... a shark researcher at Cal State's Pacific Shark Research Center.

If any further proof was needed of the vast unexplored wonders of the deep sea, this would fit the bill: researchers in New Zealand have discovered three new shark species that glow in the dark.