Animals have all sorts of methods to keep them safe and help them survive. There are animals that are so well camouflaged you'd never see them right in front of you, which helps them hide from ...

“Milky seas” are an ocean phenomenon that cause a vast area of the ocean to glow. Scientists are trying to predict when the events occur in hopes of better understanding the bioluminescent display. - ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on summer evenings. But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report ...

The more humans have explored the deep oceans, the more examples we’ve found of animals with a seemingly magical talent: bioluminescence, the ability to produce their own light. Bioluminescence is ...

What attacks nuclear submarines, glows in the dark and looks like “a pencil with teeth”? Give up? It’s a type of shark called a cookiecutter shark, so named because its vampiric teeth can take 2-inch ...

Scientists have identified two new marine species off Western Australia: a small, glowing West Australian Lanternshark and a delicate porcelain crab living symbiotically with sea-pen corals. These ...

These kaleidoscopic swims help us better understand and protect our seas. Here’s why—and where—to try it. A chain catshark, one of the 200 species of marine animals to display biofluorescence, is seen ...

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the stink of decaying ocean life is in all our noses this week as the algae that turned local waves neon blue are now dying off in huge numbers. Local ...

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For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.Related video above: Check out this amazing video of a kayaker paddling ...