Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine invertebrates called octocorals, according to the results of a new study from scientists with the ...

Recently, a new study traced the origin of bioluminescence among the Octocorallia group of Anthozoa, animals including corals and sea anemones. Researchers found evidence of bioluminescence likely ...

What happens to that daily game of hide and seek when the animals that need to hide are illuminated by all that glowing ...

(Almost all bioluminescent creatures manufacture blue light: Its short wavelengths penetrate farthest in seawater.) Some of the animals grow more active as darkness falls. Deep in the chambers of ...

so the only animals visible are either directly overhead or producing their own light. In this slide show, meet some of the bizarre creatures that create bioluminescence and learn how they use it ...

Bioluminescent organisms produce and radiate light. There are thousands of bioluminescent animals, including species of fishes, squid, shrimps and jellyfish. The light these creatures emit is created ...

mabahiss uses bioluminescence to make its way through ... Counter illumination is a kind of camouflage where an animal produces lights to make itself harder to be seen by predators.

2 Almost three centuries later, Gaius Plinius Secundus, a Roman author, conducted an in-depth study on bioluminescence. He discovered many animals that had illuminating capacity such as purple ...

While most of us might think of bioluminescence as an attractor ... Counterillumination is a kind of camouflage where an animal produces lights to make itself harder to be seen by predators.

In the deep-sea environment, lack of sunlight has driven the development of bioluminescence as a primary means of communication for hundreds of species of marine animals, she continued.