The video captured the world's attention. Weeks after a lone, now-famous anglerfish ascended from the depths and into the ...

Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and ...

An undergraduate University of Hawai‘i researcher was working in a laboratory in 2022 when she came upon a peculiar looking ...

A new species of anglerfish, “Gigantactis paresca,” discovered by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographers, was recently ...

While most of us might think of bioluminescence as an attractor—picture anglerfish luring prey with light in the depths—Clardy and his teammates found that V. mabahiss used its light to hide.

Bioluminescence, Widder believes ... Most romantic of all is the love light of the anglerfish, one of Widder’s favorite animals. The female, a fearsome gal with a toothy underbite, brandishes ...

“This is the most comprehensive scientific publication on the distribution of fish bioluminescence ever written, and the authors show that bioluminescence evolved way more times independently than ...

The end of the lure lights up thanks to bioluminescent bacteria living inside of the angler fish. This symbiotic relationship ...

Deep in the ocean’s pitch-black depths lurks a creature straight out of a horror movie—the black seadevil anglerfish. With ...

From fireflies to comb jellies, here is a list of eight animals that naturally glow in the dark. Fireflies use flashing light to attract mates, but begin emitting light even as larvae. The glowworm ...

Many angler fish have a transparent 'lure' containing a high concentration of bioluminescent bacteria. Bioluminescent bacteria produce light. Suggest an advantage to the angler fish of having a ...