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, ...

By about 200 meters, light fades fast, and below 1,000 meters the sea is functionally dark, forcing life to solve survival with stranger tools than most surface creatures ever need. That is why so ...

Female bees and wasps are the real defenders. Only females can sting, because stingers are modified egg-laying organs. Males do nothing in defence. Females guard nests, food, and colonies with extreme ...

"I’ve been down 3,000 feet alone in the ocean, which has got to be one of the loneliest places on the planet," Widder says.

As you descend from the sunlight zone into the midnight zone, the ocean transforms into almost complete darkness where pressure increases dramatically and life mutates into killing machines. In this ...

From giant stick bugs to rarely seen sea creatures, these animal videos fascinated us—and led to new scientific discoveries. An orca calf and adult swim in the Norwegian fjords. Orcas have been among ...

A decade ago, a group of scientists had the literally brilliant idea to use bioluminescent light to visualize brain activity. "We started thinking: 'What if we could light up the brain from the inside ...

This image shows the cortical neurons of a lab mouse bioluminescing while the mouse runs on a wheel. The large, dark tube-like structures are blood vessels. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A ...

PUERTO PEÑASCO, MEXICO (AZFamily) — What a week it has been for the natural wonders of our beautiful world. These dynamic, visually pleasing displays have been in full view from our amazing desert sky ...

If you've been to Newport Beach, California, in the spring and fall months, you might have witnessed the wonderful phenomenon that is the bioluminescent waves. Every year, walking along the beach at ...