Many deep-sea creatures have organs all over their bodies that emit light. Now scientists believe these same organs can actually see. The organs, called photophores, cannot see shapes but FIU marine ...

When a fish approaches a shrimp and holds its body very still—called posing—the shrimp then wave their antennae, signaling ...

The largest and brightest type of photophore is the organs of Pesta, most common in shrimp that migrate to shallower waters where light levels are higher. Species with these photophores had the ...

This graphic depicts the exoskeleton structure of a certain type of deep-sea shrimp able to survive the scalding hot waters of hydrothermal vents thousands of feet under water. Insights into the ...

When she saw a bright blue flash in a jar of water she’d collected off the coast of South Africa, jellyfish researcher Rebecca Helm thought she was hallucinating. In reality, she’d spotted the ...

This cleaner shrimp fulfilled its role as the 'dentist of the sea' as it cleared parasites and food remains from the mouth of a fish. The white grouper fish - covered in red blotches - opened wide to ...