A biofluorescent Australian swellshark has been captured on film in waters just south of Melbourne. When most people think of glowing marine creatures, they imagine bizarre life from the dark depths ...

An international research team led by scientists from the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Pompeu Fabra ...

An international research team led by scientists from the Museum of Natural Sciences in Barcelona, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fire salamander bathed in ultraviolet light reveals a constellation of green-blue lights across its stomach and sides. Bernat ...

In antiquity, many thought salamanders were fire-proof. The legend, which likely originated from the amphibians' penchant for living in firewood, inspired the common name of the fire salamander, a ...

Biofluorescent fish have been glowing across the ocean for at least 112 million years. When blue light hits their skin, these animals absorb it and re-emit it as green, yellow, orange, or red. Fish ...

Birds-of-paradise have long dazzled us with their incredibly vibrant and varied plumage, but researchers studying the group have recently made an even more incredible discovery. Plumage on 37 of 45 ...

Biofluorescence, the absorption of high-energy light and its reemission at lower energy wavelengths, is widespread across vertebrate and invertebrate lineages, especially fishes. According to two ...

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History sheds light on the ancient origins of biofluorescence in fishes and the range of brilliant colors involved in this biological ...