Flashlight fish have the ability to generate situation-specific blink patterns resembling a visual Morse code. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have shown in laboratory and field experiments ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Liz writes about the ocean and its protection. A new discovery sets these flashlight fish apart from many other bioluminescent ...

The deep sea is nature's engineering department. The creatures that live in the briny deep have adapted some amazing ways of surviving and thriving in their extreme habitat. Like this species: ...

The flashlight fish uses bioluminescent light to detect and feed on its planktonic prey, according to a study published February 8, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jens Hellinger from Ruhr ...

Flashlight fish are a bizarre group of fishes that have symbiotic bacteria under their eyes that glow in the dark and can be turned off and on. Many people just found out that flashlight fish exist, ...

Have you ever wondered how some animals glow in the dark? Bioluminescence is a natural ability in particular living creatures to produce light. It happens through a chemical reaction inside their ...

Flashlight fish have the ability to generate situation-specific blink patterns resembling a visual Morse code. Researchers have shown in laboratory and field experiments that the animals use these ...