Bioluminescence might look beautiful, but there’s more to it than just glowing lights. In this video, we explore the mysterious world of bioluminescent organisms and why you shouldn’t always trust ...

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

Learn more about the difference between bioluminescence and photoluminescence, and about the particular chemical compounds ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

“In the open ocean environment, approximately 75 percent of the animals make light,” says Widder. And bioluminescence didn’t just evolve once. It evolved again and again: At least 50 ...

There are several types of camouflage in the animal kingdom. Most people think of insects that can blend into a pile of ...

A meter net will collect samples of bioluminescent plankton — it's lowered to a depth of around 600 feet — and the vessel's ...

No phone, no camera, no fear. Well, a little bit of fear. This is what it’s like to go night swimming in a bioluminescent bay in Panama.