Some jellyfish species can regenerate body parts or revert to an earlier life stage, granting them potential biological ...

2 Almost three centuries later, Gaius Plinius Secundus, a Roman author, conducted an in-depth study on bioluminescence. He discovered many animals that had illuminating capacity such as purple ...

Bioluminescent organisms produce and radiate light. There are thousands of bioluminescent animals, including species of fishes, squid, shrimps and jellyfish. The light these creatures emit is created ...

Meanwhile, other organisms, such as certain jellyfish and worms, deploy bioluminescence as a defense mechanism, releasing glowing particles to confuse and deter predators. Certain species of squid ...

From the ghostly glow of bioluminescent species like Aequorea victoria to the towering tentacles of the lion’s mane jellyfish, each species reveals a unique facet of nature’s ability to adapt ...

Woven into this account are other fascinating facts and anecdotes on bioluminescence — including ... Shimomura who unraveled how the palm-sized jellyfish Aequoria victoria glowed.

Examples of bioluminescence can be found throughout nature in bacteria, mushrooms, jellyfish, earthworms, clams, fish, and beetles. The group researches the bioluminescent pathways of fireflies and ...

The jellyfish put on a bioluminescent show for onlookers at Hobart's waterfront on Thursday night. While it may appear beautiful to onlookers, Dr Gershwin said the jellyfish bloom was not only a ...

Jellyfish fossils are hard to come by because their soft tissue doesn’t leave skeletal remains, but traces of them have been found in sediment from 500 million years ago. Froilan Robas ...

WATCH HERE >> Local Tasmanian biologist and expert on marine ecosystems Lisa Gershwin said witnessing the moon jellyfish combined with a bloom of bioluminescent algae, noctiluca scintillans ...