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A deep-sea hooked squid was recently caught on film with its photophores alight when it mistook a research camera for prey. Reading time 2 minutes A team of marine researchers with the Minderoo—UWA ...

Have you ever wondered how some animals glow in the dark? Bioluminescence is a natural ability in particular living creatures to produce light. It happens through a chemical reaction inside their ...

Glowing sea animals use bioluminescence powered by luciferin to communicate, attract prey and defend themselves, turning the ...

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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 ...

There are several types of camouflage in the animal kingdom. Most people think of insects that can blend into a pile of leaves or an octopus that can match its surroundings. Transparency is a ...

Hundreds to thousands of feet below the surface of the ocean, beyond where sunlight can reach, another world exists. It’s called the twilight zone and the animals here vary from microscopic to very ...

The mutualistic association between Vibrio fischeri and the bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes has long served as an exemplary model for the study of host–microbe interactions. In this symbiosis, V.