The glow of bioluminescent waves is a special sight worth traveling for. Here are our picks for the world's best beaches to ...

Mosquito Bay on Vieques in Puerto Rico is considered the brightest bioluminescent bay in the world. Tiny organisms called ...

"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the secrets of this ghostly phenomenon. Satellite imagery of visible light for a ...

The sky was moonless and overcast, leaving no stars to steer by. Alone at the helm in the middle of the Arabian Sea, somewhere between Oman and India, I could see nothing in the ink-black night save ...

Two tiny new species, a porcelain crab and a lantern shark, were discovered during a 2022 deep-sea expedition off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast in the Gascoyne Marine Park, recent research confir ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 29 (July 19, 2022), pp. 1-3 (3 pages) “Milky seas” are massive swaths of uniformly and steadily glowing ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Written by Danielle DeLeo, postdoctoral associate in biological sciences at FIU. Our research focuses on octocorals ...

Beachgoers watch and record images of bioluminescent waves breaking in Huntington Beach on Jan. 2, 2024. Bioluminescence is light emitted by living things through chemical reactions in their bodies.

Muscat’s beaches are glowing with rare blue bioluminescence, enchanting residents and travellers alike. Witness the magical ...

Scientists have discovered two new spooky sea creatures living hundreds of metres under the ocean. Find out more here.

Glowing "milky seas," seen here from a satellite, have confused and captivated sailors for centuries. Colorado State University, CIRA and NOAA From the deck of the American clipper ship Shooting Star, ...