What has eight arms, no bones and hundreds of bright, twinkly lights? The glowing sucker octopus (Stauroteuthis syrtensis), of course. This flashy octopod is one of the few of its kind to have ...

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 ...

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 ...

These females' glow is second only to the most bioluminescent octopus, the aptly named glowing sucker octopus (Stauroteuthis syrtensis), which comes from a different family of octopuses altogether.

(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 ...

[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 ...

Bioluminescent waves are one of nature’s ... which was scraped off the skin of an octopus. A weight is positioned at each side. When you push the frame, the entire lamp begins to rock, swooshing ...

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 ...

Snipe eel, phantom anglerfish, cockatoo squid. Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of these creatures, because even the scientists who study such things hardly ever see them. Even in ...

Instead its light source is bioluminescent bacteria found on octopus tentacles. When exposed to oxygen, these micro-organisms emit a soft blue hue that glows like an organic nightlight.

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 ...