In San Diego in November 2023, photographer Vishwas Lokesh captured bioluminescent waves at La Jolla Shores ... organisms that live in the ocean. NOAA says many animals — like bacteria, sharks ...

The spectacular bioluminescent display that lit up our ... sulfide gas while creating oxygen-depleted "dead zones" in the ocean. "It smells like a rough combination of sewage and dead fish ...

Each year, shore waves along the Texas coastline are illuminated with flashes of ethereal blue light. The dazzling display is caused by millions of tiny bioluminescent plankton through an ...

Bioluminescent creatures, including phytoplakton, squid, shrimp, and some fish are found throughout marine habitats, from the ocean surface ... and bioluminescent waves can sometimes be seen ...

Bioluminescence is actually a fairly common trait in ocean life. Sea stars ... subject to scrutiny by passing pelicans and seals groaning from shore. Big waves boomed at the mouth of the bay a mile or ...

lucky San Diegans at Torrey Pines State Beach and Ponto Beach got a glimpse of bioluminescent waves crashing on the coast. Although it’s not something you see everyday, Southern California is no ...

"Our finding reveals a completely novel function for bioluminescence in the ocean, and shows that fishes are able to school using only the natural light they emit, without the need to rely on ...

The ability to make light—bioluminescence—is both commonplace ... the vehicle disappears beneath the waves. As a place to live, the ocean has a couple of peculiarities. The first is that ...

Some of the planet's bioluminescent animals live in the deep ocean (although not all of them ... which can appear to travel in waves along the squid's body, helping with camouflage. Animals can often ...