Most recently, on a historic voyage off the coast of Japan, she used her bioluminescent bag of tricks to summon the most legendary sea creature of all: the giant squid. Today we are hoping to see ...

If conditions are right, thousands of glowing, bioluminescent, squid are washed up on the shore in a breathtaking, if macabre, natural light show. ...we headed to Toyama with a plan and lots of ...

From fireflies to comb jellies, here is a list of eight animals that naturally glow in the dark. Fireflies use flashing light to attract mates, but begin emitting light even as larvae. The glowworm ...

Bioluminescent organisms produce and radiate light. There are thousands of bioluminescent animals, including species of fishes, squid, shrimps and jellyfish. The light these creatures emit is created ...

The bioluminescent bay on the Puerto Rican island ... giving the prey a chance to escape. A deep-sea squid, for example, can give a big squirt of light before darting off into the gloom.

Thanks to the bioluminescent bacteria inhabiting its light organ, the vividly colored southern bobtail squid (Euprymna tasmanica) can glow in the dark. A series of rodent experiments showed that even ...

The night is cool, still, almost silky, and I could stay in this moment forever, but from a nearby boat I hear the guide urge us on, closer to the dark shores where Northern California’s Tomales Bay ...

Her ingenious invention, the e-jelly, which mimics the bioluminescent distress signal of a deep-sea jellyfish that is under attack, thereby enticing Humboldt squid towards it. Also onboard was ...

Most bioluminescent beaches are located in the tropics, where warm waters provide the nutrients dinoflagellates — or a number ...