Animals living on the bottom tend to have bioluminescence shifted toward green, which transmits best in the murkier water. Some worms and an octopus even produce yellow bioluminescence. Most unusual ...

To see the glow from a species of bioluminescent octopus used to require a trip to the deep sea and a fair amount of patience. Not anymore. Ambio, a mobile lamp from Amsterdam-based designer ...

The glowing sucker octopus (Stauroteuthis syrtensis), of course. This flashy octopod is one of the few of its kind to have true bioluminescence, a trait much more common in two other cephalopod ...

Fireflies are perhaps the best known example, though many other species are bioluminescent, including glow worms, anglerfish, and octopus. Even some plants, such as mushrooms and other fungi ...

In 1999, scientists announced that they had accidentally discovered an octopus that has glow-in-the-dark tentacles. The capture of the bioluminescent octopus was a big surprise for Edie Widder and ...

[Photos of Bioluminescent Wonders] Zylinski now plans to study how the chromatophores of the Japetella octopus change with age. Younger, smaller octopuses live higher in the water column ...

A family of fish known as tubeshoulders shoots bioluminescent ink to evade attackers, similar to a squid or an octopus. Many fish develop lightly-colored glowing bellies to hide themselves from ...

(Here’s why octopuses remind us so much of ourselves.) “There’s only one kind of octopus with bioluminescent suckers: Stauroteuthis syrtensis, or the Dumbo octopus,” says Mike Vecchione ...

She shone bluish-white LED lights, very similar to bioluminescent light, on the cephalopods. In two species, the 3-inch (7.6-centimeter) Japetella heathi octopus and the 5-inch (12.7-cm ...