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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first detailed study of the rare splendid lantern shark reveals that not only does it glow in the dark, but the light effects create a "cloak of invisibility" that helps shield it from predators.

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 ...

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 ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as ...

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 ...

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 ...