A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea creatures—including a “mystery mollusk,” a bioluminescent jellyfish and a “s ...

deep sea are known to bioluminesce,” DeLeo says, hinting that the ability was important for the animals growing in the dark. Ancient octocorals likely gained bioluminescence ability because of a ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...

an evolutionarily ancient and frequently bioluminescent group of animals that includes soft corals, sea fans and sea pens. Like hard corals, octocorals are tiny colonial polyps that secrete a ...

Most recently, on a historic voyage off the coast of Japan, she used her bioluminescent bag of tricks to summon the most legendary sea creature of all: the giant squid. Today we are hoping to see ...

Although most bioluminescence is blue or green, some of these hunters, such as the loose-jaw dragonfish, use red light, which most deep-sea animals can’t see. The crown jellyfish (Atolla ...

It has bioluminescent organs called photophores that produce flashes of light and prefers free-floating debris from the surface to blood. Look, here comes a blobfish! This thrilling deep-sea fish ...

Animals can often control when they produce light, and they make use of it in many different ways. Even in one organism bioluminescence can have multiple uses. In the deep sea, light is used to ...