Imagine plunging into a world where sunlight barely penetrates, and the darkness is suddenly broken by mysterious flashes of ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications. The deep sea is a dark place, with the only light coming from ...

These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of ... dusky glow even at high noon, they saw this bioluminescent jellyfish (Colobonema sericeum). It may have been waiting for prey to rise ...

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 ...

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 ...

is a graduate student in the University of Hawai’i’s Jeff Drazen’s Deep-Sea Fish Ecology Laboratory. Anglerfish use a bioluminescent bait at the tip of their lures over their head.