From the depths of the ocean to the forest floor at night, some animals can do something that seems almost magical: they make ...

Deep into the ocean’s heart, where sunlight is a forgotten dream, otherworldly lights pulse in rhythm with life’s heartbeat. This captivating spectacle is the product of bioluminescent glows emitted ...

Picture this: vast underwater mountains hiding creatures that seem ripped from science fiction, animals that create their own light shows in eternal darkness, and ecosystems thriving under pressures ...

1. Most animals that display bioluminescence rely on the dance of two unique chemicals. Luciferase, an enzyme, enables ...

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

Given how underexplored the Pacific Ocean is, it is not surprising that new species are being discovered every time a manned or unmanned deep-water submersible is launched to document the species ...

Bioluminescence, Widder believes, is the most common, and most eloquent, language on earth, and it’s informing fields from biomedicine to modern warfare to deep-sea exploration. Most recently, on a ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...