Many people just found out that flashlight fish exist, thanks to the viral tweet below. The glowing fish have lights under their eyes that blink on and off. But it turns out that there’s even more ...

With distinct tubular eyes and a natural glow, two species of bioluminescent deep-sea fish nicknamed "barreleyes" have been identified. The newly described species are part of the family ...

In an effort to decipher their Morse code-like blinking pattern, Jens Hellinger of Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, the principal author of the study, and his team analyzed a school of flashlight ...

Glowing fish are turning out to be far more common than scientists had assumed, and now researchers swimming in Southern California waters may have figured out why. After using a custom-built “shark ...

California was derided by some when the Fish and Game Commission voted last month to ban sales of the first genetically modified pet, the GloFish. But the state's review for environmental safety was ...

Red light can’t penetrate far past the ocean’s surface, so researchers thought that most fish don’t perceive red light. But some reef fish have taken advantage of the absence of red light, using it to ...

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In the darkest depths of the ocean, several marine species light up like bright stars in the night sky. It's all thanks to bioluminescence or the production of light from a living creature.

2003-12-04 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento-- A state commission on Wednesday denied a Texas company's plan to sell genetically altered, glow-in-the-dark fish in California pet stores, calling fluorescent fish ...

This year’s TIME 100 is, as always, full of personalities whose influence is at once lasting and admirable, and who have done big, powerful things to shake the world. But many big, powerful things ...