Fluorescence in a crinoid in the Red Sea. This is one of the new species found to fluoresce. PLOS ONE 2024. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292476. The species include octopuses, sea snails ...

Firefly squid in the dark (Image credit: Getty Images) This tiny 3 inch squid only lives for 1 year and dies right after it breeds. But during its lifetime, Watasenia scintillans is spectacular in ...

Scientists have taken the first ever photos of a glow-in-the-dark shark producing its own light. The kitefin shark, Dalatias licha, is the world’s largest known bioluminescent vertebrate ...

Books: Adrift on a Wine-Dark Sea. 4 minute read. TIME. October 31, 1960 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... For Durrell, this discovery is a kind of Dionysian revel of language, a sunburst of images.