Many people just found out that flashlight fish exist, thanks to the viral tweet below. The glowing fish have lights under their eyes that blink on and off. But it turns out that there’s even more ...

Flashlight fish use their bioluminescent organs to school at night - and only a few need actively flash to maintain the group, according to a study published August 14, 2019 in the open-access journal ...

Flashlight fish (Anomalops katoptron). The torch-like organ can be seen under its eye. (D. Gruber, 2019) (CN) – While most fish tend to disperse in dark waters, scientists have discovered flashlight ...

This species of flashlight fish, Anomalops katoptron, is about the size of an index finger and is found in the western and central Pacific Ocean. The glowing light is created by bacteria the ...

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 ...

“The first time I remember seeing anything bioluminescent I was in Puerto Rico, about 2006, and we were down there doing coral restoration work, which is amazing in itself,” says divemaster Barrett ...

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 ...

Scientists found a “slender” creature, “very sensitive to flashlights,” on a roadside in Nepal and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Santosh Bhattarai, shared by Akshay Khandekar As ...