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

Most animals, humans included ... This small animal lurks in the deep dark sea, deploying the glow to camouflage itself ...

Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns serve.

This 3-inch-long bioluminescent creature glows to camouflage by matching the light from the ocean surface, helping it hide from predators, attract mates, and communicate. The railroad worm is ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Australia's Illawarra region, a ghostbusting-style night tour reveals ghost fungi, sea sparkles and tiny creatures lighting up the dark.

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 ...