Dive, dive, dive! That’s the mantra of marine biologist Dr. Edith “Edie” Widder, who has been exploring the ocean depths for ...

Artist Cat Ward's "Deep Dive" art installation at the Tybee Island Marine Science Center features sculptures and bioluminescent-inspired paintings of sea creatures. The exhibit is inspired by Ward's ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

One of Earth's most spectacular light shows can actually be found in the oceans, when their waves glow brightly as the result ...

The splendid deep-sea coral Iridogorgia sp. Deep-sea octocorals that are known to be bioluminescent. Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. Note to editors: Photos illustrating this ...

MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Bioluminescence traces back to the Cambrian era — 540 million years ago — and could have been used for communication, courtship and camouflage among the earliest ocean creatures. When you purchase ...

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine invertebrates called octocorals, according to the results of a new study from scientists with the ...