Genetic data also showed 185 species of luminous coral and curated a detailed ... from shallow waters to the light-limited deep sea where bioluminescence is particularly prominent.

Now, a new study has found the earliest example of bioluminescence ... can create coral gardens and animal forests in the oceans, particularly in the deep sea, which can provide homes and even ...

Caption A magnificent coral Iridogorgia magnispiralis, a deep-sea octocorals that are known to be bioluminescent. Researchers now know the common ancestor of all octocorals likely already had the ...

See the mesmerising 'northern lights of the ocean' caught on video, and discover how marine life uses this glow to hunt and ...

Most flabbergasting are the colors: There are sorbet corals ... and was the first to watch deep-sea animals in the wild, including what must have been bioluminescent creatures that “exploded ...

The ability to make light—bioluminescence—is ... are neither rich fishing grounds, nor coral reefs, nor fashionable research spots such as deep-sea vents. It is these vast expanses that ...

Glass sponges create deep-sea habitats for other organisms much like coral reefs do in shallower waters. The team turned up some of its most bizarre finds in dark ocean expanses between seeps and ...

Deep-sea coral fossils used by researchers to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon ...

While Hovland balanced his industry job and coral science in the deep sea, bottom trawl fishing was exploding in popularity in Norway. Wheeled “rock hopper” gear allowed ships to pull nets ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang D (2025) ZooKeys The underwater mountains of the northwest Pacific are ...

Professor Sophie Scott is joined by James Maclaine, a Curator of fish from the Natural History Museum, who shows her a number of deep sea fish and explains how they use light to communicate in ...