Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects ...

A group of researchers in Japan have discovered three new species of sea worms that quite literally glow in the dark. The new bioluminescent Polycirrus worms, which emit a blue-violet light, were ...

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Artificial light is bad news for a wide range of wildlife, but it can be a particular challenge for a unique subset of species: those that make their own glow. “With bioluminescent creatures, you can ...

Bright artificial lights dazzle glow-worms, an effect that could drive the glimmering insects to extinction, researchers have found 1. Female glow-worms (Lampyris noctiluca) emit green light from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — After the sun went down in ...

The BDA Glow Worm Society arose out of a joke. A few years ago, boat pilot and diver Chris Gauntlett posted a question on social media, asking when the glow worms would be out. Every month during the ...

In the darkness of caves and forests, a silent trap is set - woven from light. In this episode, we explore how glow worms use bioluminescence to create one of nature’s most mesmerizing hunting ...