A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

Dive into the movement of the spindly brittle star, which is more mobile, and more connected, in the deep sea.

You may have read that the deep sea is a very different environment from the land and shallow water. There is no light, it is ...

We studied a group of animals called brittle stars, strange spiny creatures with a disc-like body and five sinuous or ...

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A recent flurry of Instagram posts has confirmed that bright blue, glow-in-the-dark oceans have appeared on the northwest Tasmanian coastline for the first time. The water along the shoreline near ...

According to ABC News, bioluminescence is caused by dinoflagellates, a single-celled organism nicknamed "sea sparkles," and they emit light when stimulated by a disturbances in the water.

Crowds gathered to experience eerie glow along the shore. — -- Crowds gathered to experience the dazzling glow of a bioluminescent event along beaches in Tasmania in Australia this week. The ...

Separated from the southeastern coast of the Australian mainland by 140 miles of unruly sea, Tasmania is more remote than Prospero's enchanted island and more shunned by tourists than New Jersey ...