The bamboo coral _Isidella_ displaying bioluminescence in the Caribbean in 2009. Sönke Johnsen, CC BY-ND Our research focuses on octocorals – soft-bodied corals such as sea fans that have treelike ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shine an ultraviolet flashlight on flying squirrels, and they glow bright pink. Catch a scorpion on a full moon, and you’ll notice ...

Far below the waves, where sunlight never reaches, scientists keep finding sharks that make their own light. The newest arrival is a pocket-sized predator that glows in the dark, a fresh species that ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications Biology. The deep sea is a dark place, with the only light coming ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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 that ...

In the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt and in the Banda Sea off the coast of Indonesia, more than two dozen animals were found to glow for the very first time by a dive team. Aviv Perets via Unsplash ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...

But New Zealand is home to an amazing version of glow worms – the Arachnocampa luminosa – and they are responsible for one of the most stunning natural spectacles in the world. The common glow worm, ...