The flashlight fish is not alone in using bacteria as light factories. Similar organs housing bioluminescent bacteria are found in deep sea anglerfishes and ponyfishes, too. In fact, a 2016 study ...

Watch fish expert Ollie Crimmen explain more about these deep-sea dwellers. Lanternfishes have light-producing organs on their bodies that are called photophores. This light is created by a chemical ...

Bioluminescence describes the light some living ... of light to scare off potential predators such as shrimp or small fish. The dinoflagellates appear as orange in the daytime but, when near ...