What attacks nuclear submarines, glows in the dark and looks like “a pencil with teeth”? Give up? It’s a type of shark called a cookiecutter shark, so named because its vampiric teeth can ...

The explanation for why scorpions glow in the dark when you shine a UV light on them is not completely understood. Scorpions have hard shells like crawfish, and the fluorescent property is in the ...

Land animals aren’t the only ones to glow under UV light, and in some ways the phenomenon makes more sense in the ocean because of how underwater environments impact light.

The researchers believe this marks the first time a light absorbing and reflecting feature was documented on the exterior of ...

What’s particularly strange is that, while animals such as flying squirrels glow essentially from head to toe under UV light, in Mexican free-tailed bats, it’s just the toes. And the toes ...

A new database compiling over 400 sightings of a mysterious ocean phenomenon known as ‘milky seas’ could help scientists soon predict when the odd ocean glows occur.

A new database compiling over 400 sightings of a mysterious ocean phenomenon known as ‘milky seas’ could help scientists soon predict when the odd ocean glows occur.