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World’s Largest Luminous Vertebrate Is A Shark With A Sparkly Tummy – All The Better To Hunt WithTwo images of a kitefin shark showing the glowing blue patches along its stomach, fins and tail.

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World’s Largest Luminous Vertebrate Is A Shark With A Sparkly Tummy – All The Better To Hunt WithTwo images of a kitefin shark showing the glowing blue patches along its stomach, fins and tail.
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World’s Largest Luminous Vertebrate Is A Shark With A Sparkly Tummy – All The Better To Hunt With

clock-iconAugust 19, 2026

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100-Million-Year-Old Beetle Preserved In Amber Has A Structure That Scientists Have Never Seen Before In Any Animal Living Or ExtinctTwo views of the beetle incased in amber with a reconstruction of the antenna to the right

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100-Million-Year-Old Beetle Preserved In Amber Has A Structure That Scientists Have Never Seen Before In Any Animal Living Or ExtinctTwo views of the beetle incased in amber with a reconstruction of the antenna to the right
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100-Million-Year-Old Beetle Preserved In Amber Has A Structure That Scientists Have Never Seen Before In Any Animal Living Or Extinct

clock-iconAugust 18, 2026

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Bloody-Belly Comb Jellies, Dinner Plate Jellies, And Other Deep-Sea Weirdos Spotted Off The US CoastA photo of a dinner plate jelly. It is translucent and blue-tinged with thin tentacles.

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Bloody-Belly Comb Jellies, Dinner Plate Jellies, And Other Deep-Sea Weirdos Spotted Off The US CoastA photo of a dinner plate jelly. It is translucent and blue-tinged with thin tentacles.
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Bloody-Belly Comb Jellies, Dinner Plate Jellies, And Other Deep-Sea Weirdos Spotted Off The US Coast

clock-iconAugust 7, 2026

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Funky Green Glowing Coral Is The First Report Of Bioluminescence Within A Deep-Sea Caveclose up of bioluminescent green coral

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Funky Green Glowing Coral Is The First Report Of Bioluminescence Within A Deep-Sea Caveclose up of bioluminescent green coral
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Funky Green Glowing Coral Is The First Report Of Bioluminescence Within A Deep-Sea Cave

clock-iconFebruary 10, 2026
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Sneaky Spiders Can Turn Trapped Fireflies’ Glow Into A Handy Hunting ToolSheet web spider with fireflies caught in web

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Sneaky Spiders Can Turn Trapped Fireflies’ Glow Into A Handy Hunting ToolSheet web spider with fireflies caught in web
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Sneaky Spiders Can Turn Trapped Fireflies’ Glow Into A Handy Hunting Tool

clock-iconSeptember 1, 2025

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The Largest Bioluminescent Vertebrate Known To Science Is A Glow-In-The-Dark SharkLateral and dorsal luminescent pattern of Dalatias licha

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The Largest Bioluminescent Vertebrate Known To Science Is A Glow-In-The-Dark SharkLateral and dorsal luminescent pattern of Dalatias licha
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The Largest Bioluminescent Vertebrate Known To Science Is A Glow-In-The-Dark Shark

clock-iconAugust 11, 2025
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Humans Glow, And It’s A Light That Probably Goes Out When We Diea face made of light shattering into darkness

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Humans Glow, And It’s A Light That Probably Goes Out When We Diea face made of light shattering into darkness
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Humans Glow, And It’s A Light That Probably Goes Out When We Die

clock-iconMay 12, 2025
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Biofluorescence vs BioluminescenceYou wish jellyfish

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Biofluorescence vs BioluminescenceYou wish jellyfish
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Biofluorescence vs Bioluminescence

clock-iconMay 6, 2025
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Biofluorescence Vs Bioluminescence: What's The Difference?scorpion glowing under ultraviolet light (left); two fireflies with glowing ends, hanging onto a tree (right)

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Biofluorescence Vs Bioluminescence: What's The Difference?scorpion glowing under ultraviolet light (left); two fireflies with glowing ends, hanging onto a tree (right)
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Biofluorescence Vs Bioluminescence: What's The Difference?

clock-iconFebruary 13, 2025
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Tasmania Experiences A Dangerous Beauty In Sea And SkyTasmania saw in the New Year with auroras above and glowing seas below.

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Tasmania Experiences A Dangerous Beauty In Sea And SkyTasmania saw in the New Year with auroras above and glowing seas below.
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Tasmania Experiences A Dangerous Beauty In Sea And Sky

clock-iconJanuary 10, 2025
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Humans Glow In The Dark, It’s Just Too Weak For Our Eyes To Seea human hand lit up on a dark background

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Humans Glow In The Dark, It’s Just Too Weak For Our Eyes To Seea human hand lit up on a dark background
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Humans Glow In The Dark, It’s Just Too Weak For Our Eyes To See

clock-iconJanuary 8, 2025
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Glowing Wood Now An Option Thanks To A Curious Fungus’s Ghostly Bioluminescencea bioluminescent fungus growing on a tree

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Glowing Wood Now An Option Thanks To A Curious Fungus’s Ghostly Bioluminescencea bioluminescent fungus growing on a tree
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Glowing Wood Now An Option Thanks To A Curious Fungus’s Ghostly Bioluminescence

clock-iconDecember 3, 2024
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Male Dragonfish Exhibit An “Extremely Rare” Trait To Date In The DarkMalacosteus niger fish with large eyes and dark body

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Male Dragonfish Exhibit An “Extremely Rare” Trait To Date In The DarkMalacosteus niger fish with large eyes and dark body
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Male Dragonfish Exhibit An “Extremely Rare” Trait To Date In The Dark

clock-iconJuly 29, 2024
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Rare Deep-Sea Squid Dazzles And Glows In Mind-Blowing Footage a Dana octopus squid ( Taningia danae) attacking a camera in the deep sea.

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Rare Deep-Sea Squid Dazzles And Glows In Mind-Blowing Footage a Dana octopus squid ( Taningia danae) attacking a camera in the deep sea.
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Rare Deep-Sea Squid Dazzles And Glows In Mind-Blowing Footage

clock-iconMay 16, 2024
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Bioluminescent Animals Have Been Glowing For At Least 540 Million YearsDeep sea soft coral Iridogorgia is one of many members of the octocorals that uses bioluminescence it inherited from a pre-Cambrian ancestor

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Bioluminescent Animals Have Been Glowing For At Least 540 Million YearsDeep sea soft coral Iridogorgia is one of many members of the octocorals that uses bioluminescence it inherited from a pre-Cambrian ancestor
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Bioluminescent Animals Have Been Glowing For At Least 540 Million Years

clock-iconApril 24, 2024
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