Imagine sinking hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface. The blue fades. The warmth disappears. By the time you reach about 650 feet down, sunlight is barely a memory. Go deeper, and it’s complete ...

Between 1,000 and 4,000 metres deep, there isn’t any sunlight at all so creatures find new strategies to survive ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight can’t reach, some of the most unusual creatures on Earth thrive in complete ...

is crimson creature glides through the twilight zone with rainbows dancing up and down its body but to predators it’s ...

The natural world is full of creatures with abilities that seem almost unreal, and few are more fascinating than animals that can produce their own light. In fact, the majority of bioluminescent ...

From the depths of the ocean to the forest floor at night, some animals can do something that seems almost magical: they make their own light. This phenomenon is known as bioluminescence. But glowing ...

The ocean is still one of the biggest mysteries on Earth, and the deeper you go, the stranger it gets. Far below the surface, where sunlight can’t reach, lives a world full of creatures that look more ...

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 ...

If you've been to Newport Beach, California, in the spring and fall months, you might have witnessed the wonderful phenomenon that is the bioluminescent waves. Every year, walking along the beach at ...

What is truly scary about the ocean is that many of the threats are invisible. While the surface may appear tranquil, there ...