Suddenly the dark waters lit up with a “starry”-looking glow. The source? An unusual new species of deep-sea animal ... kelp ...

Scientists say the crustaceans have developed a visual system based on proteins that help them detect the little light that ...

In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than previously thought. “Light signalling is one of ...

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 ...

Nudibranchs are common in coastal environments—including tide pools, kelp forests, and coral ... deep sea, particularly below 2,000 meters. For there to be a relatively large, unique, and ...

Deep-sea coral fossils used by researchers to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon ...

An international group of scientists has returned from the depths of the ocean with a new lab animal in hand: a glowing anemone ... habitats such as tropical coral reefs. A group of scientists ...

They were covered by deep sea animals, including barnacles, brittle stars and predatory worms. To the team's surprise they found some species of coral had settled onto the buoys, including several ...