Now, a new study has found the earliest example of bioluminescence ... can create coral gardens and animal forests in the oceans, particularly in the deep sea, which can provide homes and even ...

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

Caption A magnificent coral Iridogorgia magnispiralis, a deep-sea octocorals that are known to be bioluminescent. Researchers now know the common ancestor of all octocorals likely already had the ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the ... A small fish only known to the Red Sea, V. mabahiss lives deep underwater and is seldom encountered ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and ...

The ability to make light—bioluminescence—is ... are neither rich fishing grounds, nor coral reefs, nor fashionable research spots such as deep-sea vents. It is these vast expanses that ...

Scientists from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the National Center for Wildlife (NCW) report in PNAS NEXUS an unusual ecosystem below the third largest coral reef ...

"With their unique traits like bioluminescent lures and large oral gapes, deep-sea anglerfish may be one ... which live in diverse and productive coral reef environments, exhibited much lower ...

Professor Sophie Scott is joined by James Maclaine, a Curator of fish from the Natural History Museum, who shows her a number of deep sea fish and explains how they use light to communicate in ...