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 ...

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

“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 ...

The glass squid's method of camouflaging involves using transparency. There are around 60 species of glass squid.

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.

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.

(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 ...

It turns out that a shocking number of mammals can glow in the dark. Shine a blacklight on a mob of Australian animals and ...

While they may be outnumbered and outweighed by insects, the terrestrial world is really the kingdom of the vertebrates.

Imagine gliding across a midnight bay, your paddle slicing through inky black water, only to see shimmering blue light ...