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.

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...