You’ve all seen bioluminescent sea creatures before. They’re those beautiful sea dwellers that are capable of making their own light.
But you may be a little less familiar with biofluroescent fish. At least I was.
Unlike bioluminescence, biofluorescence isn’t controlled by the animal. It’s caused when a fish — after absorbing lots of blue light — re-emits that light as different colors.
New York Times science writer, James Gorman explains it better than I can in the video below:
Check out photos of some of the coolest of the newly found fish:
Credits: biofluorescent stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa) AMNH; Chain catshark: A green biofluorescent chain catshark; biofluorescent false moray eel (Kaupichthys brachychirus) AMNH; biofluorescent lizardfish (Saurida gracilis) AMNH; biofluorescent goby (Eviota sp.) AMNH; biofluorescent ray (Urobatis jamaicensis) AMNH; biofluorescent sole (Soleichthys heterorhinos) AMNH; Scorpionfish: A red fluorescing scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis papuensis) perched on red fluorescing algae at night in the Solomon Islands. PLOS ONE; Triplefin blennie: A triplefin blennie (Enneapterygius sp.) under white light (above) and blue light (below) AMNH/J. Sparks and D. Gruber
Wow. Just wow.
That is really cool! How did God make it like that?
Wow, this pretty cool. Thanks Clay!
That is really creepy and cool at the same time.
I do not see how this is creepy in any way or fashion
Me neither. 😉
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I like the clump of ants!
It is not ants if you look carefully you can see a tiny glowing fish not more than 1 creature but just 1 fish and as for the other glowing part that is most likely coral.
No, I mean the fourth video on there! “The Incredible Physics of Ants!”
That is COOL!!!!!
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