An expedition of a deep-sea trench near Australia uncovered the eerie sea spider specimens, whose glow may have been ...

Explore bioluminescence, the living lights of Earth's deep oceans and forests. Discover the science behind nature's glow, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Tasha Van Zandt went to great lengths to make her documentary A Life Illuminated – and to enormous depths. More than ...

A fish that tries to swallow a sea firefly may suddenly find its own mouth exploding with some of the brightest biologic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Long Beach man captured mesmerising footage of bioluminescent sea creatures performing a rarely seen "spawning ritual," ...

In the pitch-black depths off Australia, what can be seen may be scarier than what remains hidden. Giant sea spiders with ...

Darkness dominates most of the ocean. Sunlight fades quickly as you descend, and by the time you reach the deep sea, natural light disappears entirely. Yet the ocean is far from black. Many marine ...

A new study resets the timing for the emergence of bioluminescence back to millions of years earlier than previously thought. By Sam Jones Bioluminescence is used throughout the animal kingdom, ...

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 ...

Whether it's the winter dance of the Northern Lights or the summertime glow of fireflies, displays of natural light fascinate us humans. Bioluminescence is the source of many such light shows in the ...

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 ...

Humans have long been fascinated by organisms that can produce light. Aristotle, who was a scientist as well as a philosopher, wrote the first detailed descriptions of what he called “cold light” more ...