Researchers have discovered a new species of glowing sea slug deep in the ocean’s midnight zone. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists said in a press release on Tuesday ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and ...

An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living off the West Coast of the US. CNN values your feedback 1.

Glowing Sea Creatures Have Been Lighting Up the Oceans for More Than Half a Billion Years New research on branching animals known as octocorals pushes the early days of bioluminescence back over ...

Researchers near California waters found an elusive, deep sea "mystery" mollusk that operates as a Venus fly trap far below depth. The creature is also spectacularly bioluminescent with a vivid ...

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a strange glowing sea slug off the coast of California that lives in the water column — unlike most other species of its kind. Skip to main content.

Documenting not only 42 known species of glowing sea cucumbers but also six independent evolutions of bioluminescence within the sea cucumber lineage. The earliest illuminated sea cucumber may have ...

To uncover the 10 bioluminescent sea cucumber species, the team deployed a remotely operated vehicle about 3,280 feet below the surface of Monterey Bay, California.

The other way is via mutualism with luminescent bacteria, and this way is especially common in the sea. Most bioluminescence is in the range of blue and green wavelengths.

During a “milky sea,” trillions of bacteria make the ocean light up glow-stick ... But this was not that. This was the whole of the ocean, as far as I could see, glowing a uniform, opaque green.

The dazzling glow of bioluminescence is common in Octocorallia, also known as octocorals, a class of over 3,000 Anthozoa species including sea fans, sea pens and soft corals.