Tag: bioluminescent animals

Researchers have discovered a new species in the ocean's "midnight zone." This mysterious mollusk has the ability to glow.The new species, named Bathydevius caudactylus, is about the size of an ...

Bioluminescence, the ability of living organisms to produce light through chemical reactions, may have appeared 540 million years ago in deep-sea corals.Scientists at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...