Usually, sea slugs use their rough tongues to scrape food off the seafloor. But this mysterious, bioluminescent mollusk uses ...

Its bioluminescence occurs when threatened and ... alive” repeated this spawning behavior in captivity. Like other sea slugs, the new species is a hermaphrodite with both male and female ...

Milky seas are a rare bioluminescent phenomenon where vast areas of the ocean glow at night, sometimes for months. This glow, likely caused by Vibrio harveyi bacteria, has been reported by sailors for ...

a rare species of fish from the Red Sea. This paper marks the first-ever close examination of these organs, providing key information on their structure and how V. mabahiss uses bioluminescence to ...

This method of protection can keep almost all predators at bay - but not the kaleidoscopically colourful sea slug. Nudibranchs, commonly known as sea slugs, are a group of shell-less marine molluscs.

Even in one organism bioluminescence can have multiple uses. In the deep sea, light is used to attract prey or a mate, to frighten away predators, to observe surroundings, or - like the bobtail squid ...

A Welsh photographer has said he was left "euphoric" after five years waiting to capture pictures of waves glowing with bioluminescence. Bioluminescence is the light that some living creatures ...