Glowing worms, synchronized fireflies, sparkling plankton, drifting comb jellies, and eerie fungi illuminate Southern nights, ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It only takes the gentle brush of a hand or slow glide of a boat to trigger the sparkling blue-green light of bioluminescent plankton, ...

The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

Some dinoflagellate plankton species are bioluminescent, with a remarkable ability to produce light to make themselves and the water they swim in glow. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on ...

As the story goes, the folks at BioPop were trying to make a sustainable light that relied on something other than man-made batteries. They tried using a bioluminescent plankton called dinoflagellates ...

This unassuming plankton is a deadly predator. Polykrikos kofoidii is a dinoflagellate that eats other dinoflagellates. It captures them with tiny weapons called nematocysts, which are like harpoons ...

A major red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California in the spring of 2020, resulting in dazzling displays of bioluminescence along the coast. The spectacle was caused by exceedingly high ...

Single-celled organisms of the sea shoot their prey with Spiderman webbing and tiny Gatling guns. Now, new research finds that the tiny weapons of Nematodinium and related dinoflagellates are their ...

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Scientists have used new genetic sequencing data to understand how an ancient organism that lived alongside the dinosaurs has evolved over millions of years. The effort has uncovered for the first ...

A major red tide event occurred in waters off Southern California in the spring of 2020, resulting in dazzling displays of bioluminescence along the coast. Now, for the first time, a study has ...