Found in the deep waters off Colombia and Venezuela, this bioluminescent shark uses light-producing organs to attract prey and communicate. Its tiny size and remote habitat make it an extremely ...

Lanternfishes have light-producing organs on their bodies that are called photophores. This light is created by a chemical reaction, and it is one example of a phenomenon called bioluminescence.

After a team at University College Dublin created models of the olfactory systems of several species of sharks, they found that the bioluminescent ... and great white shark’s (Carcharodon ...