This process is known scientifically as biofluorescence. The second method, known as bioluminescence, occurs when the animal ...

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(Almost all bioluminescent creatures manufacture blue light: Its short wavelengths penetrate farthest in seawater.) Some of the animals grow more active as darkness falls. Deep in the chambers of ...

A meter net will collect samples of bioluminescent plankton — it's lowered to a depth of around 600 feet — and the vessel's ...

2 Almost three centuries later, Gaius Plinius Secundus, a Roman author, conducted an in-depth study on bioluminescence. He discovered many animals that had illuminating capacity such as purple ...

Often called a “living fossil,” this shark has a long, flattened snout and a terrifying jaw that can snap forward like a ...

No phone, no camera, no fear. Well, a little bit of fear. This is what it’s like to go night swimming in a bioluminescent bay in Panama.

Some people witnessed the enchanting display of bioluminescent algae illuminating the waves in uMdloti on Good Friday.

Hundreds of thousands of bioluminescent dinoflagellates live in each gallon of bay water, and the light show put on by these tiny creatures provide is truly a (natural) wonder to behold.