and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence. The team published a description of the animal, nicknamed the "mystery mollusk," in the journal Deep-Sea Research Part I. "Thanks to MBARI's advanced ...

The deep-sea dragonfish is one of the most mysterious and fearsome creatures lurking in the ocean's depths. Known as a top predator in the deep sea, this fish has evolved incredible adaptations to ...

Animals can often control when they produce light, and they make use of it in many different ways. Even in one organism bioluminescence can have multiple uses. In the deep sea, light is used to ...

For deep-sea creatures, where sunlight is nonexistent, bioluminescence acts as a beacon in the perpetual night. Predators like the deep-sea anglerfish use a bioluminescent lure to attract ...

Although most bioluminescence is blue or green, some of these hunters, such as the loose-jaw dragonfish, use red light, which most deep-sea animals can’t see. The crown jellyfish (Atolla ...

Many deep-sea creatures give out blue light called bioluminescence - but the stoplight loosejaw emits red light as well. This light is invisible to both prey and predators, and probably acts like a ...

Caption A magnificent coral Iridogorgia magnispiralis, a deep-sea octocorals that are known to be bioluminescent. Researchers now know the common ancestor of all octocorals likely already had the ...

deep-sea swimming fish we know today. Fireflies blink in the night due to bioluminescence, but they’re not the only animals able to naturally produce light. Jellyfish, mushrooms, glowworms and ...