Steven Haddock, one of the world experts on life-forms that make ... from the searchlights of deep-sea hunters, scanning the darkness for prey. Although most bioluminescence is blue or green ...

The ancestor lived near the beginning of the Cambrian, around 542 million years ago, when life ... glowing octocorals originated in shallow waters before later expanding into the deep sea.

respiration rates are more similar to those MBARI researchers have recorded in deep-sea jellies. The reduced respiration reflects the slower pace of life in the deep water column. Bioluminescence ...

Something unusual is happening in the oceans. Strange deep-sea creatures are surfacing, and marine life is behaving ...

It is thought that up to 90% of life in the twilight zone creates light ... Even in one organism bioluminescence can have multiple uses. In the deep sea, light is used to attract prey or a mate, to ...

such as life science, medicine, nanotechnology, agriculture and environmental science. View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Although bioluminescence has been observed for many ...

This modified dorsal fin ray can produce a glow used to fish (or angle) for prey in the dim depths of the sea. The bioluminescence is produced by ... A male anglerfish spends the first part of his ...

This is the only fish that produces red bioluminescence Many deep-sea creatures give out blue light called bioluminescence - but the stoplight loosejaw emits red light as well. This light is invisible ...

Living organisms produce light in two ways: bioluminescence and biofluorescence ... is popping up all over the tree of life it has very useful implications for the individuals expressing them ...

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 ...