Their silvery bodies shimmer with bioluminescent organs, which help them blend in with the faint light filtering from above. Despite their size, lanternfish populations are estimated in the ...

Here, the lanternfish reign supreme, darting through the water in great schools, their bodies flickering with bioluminescent light. Unlike the sunlit surface, this zone is a place of mystery and ...

Lanternfish are one of many animals that light up the ocean with their glowing bodies. Watch fish expert Ollie Crimmen explain more about these deep-sea dwellers. Lanternfishes have light-producing ...

Lanternfish are small, bioluminescent—meaning they give off light—fishes, present in every ocean around the world. They live between the surface and 1,000 m deep within the so-called "twilight ...

On closer inspection, it is clear that they are actually a special group of fish, lanternfish, who get their name from their incredible ability to produce light. Lanternfish have tiny organs known ...

A preserved specimen of the Blue Lanternfish with bioluminescent spots ... they could only guess at just how common light production is among those animals. Now, new research reveals surprising ...

Lanternfish (aka myctophids) are only a few inches long typically but so ubiquitous that they account for over half the ocean’s total fish-mass. They are vital to the ocean’s ability to ...

Deep sea lanternfish help transmit parasites to sperm whales and giant squid, new research shows. “Anisakis are pervasive everywhere in the ocean,” and yet very little is known about them ...

Commercial trawlers pulled up four Japanese lanternfish, marking its first record in Taiwan and the southernmost record of the species, researchers said. Photo by Michel Stockman via Unsplash ...

Lanternfish (aka myctophids) are only a few inches long typically but so ubiquitous that they account for over half the ocean’s total fish-mass. They are vital to the ocean’s ability to ...

The famed wildlife presenter and his film crew are understood to have joined a team of scientists who have also travelled to Cairns to capture never-before-seen footage of lanternfish and other ...