In the mid-ocean depths, some squid species use bioluminescence for counterillumination, matching the light intensity from the surface to erase their silhouette and evade predators from below.

Bioluminescent organisms produce and radiate light. There are thousands of bioluminescent animals, including species of fishes, squid, shrimps and jellyfish. The light these creatures emit is created ...

The incredible red squid above - aptly named the strawberry squid - was just caught fluorescing on camera in its natural habitat for the first time ever. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium ...

If conditions are right, thousands of glowing, bioluminescent, squid are washed up on the shore in a breathtaking, if macabre, natural light show. ...we headed to Toyama with a plan and lots of ...

Like many creatures living in the deep ocean, the strawberry squid can light itself up using bioluminescence. The squid floats along the water upside down with one eye aimed at the ocean floor and ...

Bioluminescent creatures, including phytoplakton, squid, shrimp, and some fish are found throughout marine habitats, from the ocean surface to the deep sea floor. Today, the glimmering power of ...

Her ingenious invention, the e-jelly, which mimics the bioluminescent distress signal of a deep-sea jellyfish that is under attack, thereby enticing Humboldt squid towards it. Also onboard was ...

The bioluminescent bay on the Puerto Rican island ... giving the prey a chance to escape. A deep-sea squid, for example, can give a big squirt of light before darting off into the gloom.