and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence. The team published a description of the animal, nicknamed the "mystery mollusk," in the journal Deep-Sea Research Part I. "Thanks to MBARI's advanced ...

Photographers have been capturing "unforgettable" scenes of the sea lit with glowing plankton bioluminescence. Bioluminescence describes the light some living creatures, such as plankton and ...

The benefits of bioluminescence are as diverse and varied as the species that possess this luminous capability, indicating that there is not one singular reason for its existence. For deep-sea ...

Bioluminescence event on Tasman Peninsula at the Tessellated Pavements on Christmas Day. Picture: Robbie Moles Dr Gershwin ...

This group of deep-sea dwellers are best known for the bioluminescent lures dangling from their foreheads to attract predators, but they have also evolved some traits that have helped them defy ...

Things only got weirder from there. The organism’s distinctive, glowing presence was observed by multiple deep-sea missions between 2000 to 2021 but was simply referred to as “mystery mollusk.” ...

Glowing animals are truly captivating ... In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than ...

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 ...

Bathydevius is a swimming sea slug that glows with bioluminescence and has a body with a paddle-like tail and a large gelatinous hood, and it’s the first sea slug found to live in the deep ocean.

Researchers have discovered a new species of glowing sea slug deep in the ocean’s midnight zone. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists said in a press release on Tuesday ...