Tone Sai Beach is well-known for its display of natural light. Plankton in the shallow waters is the source of the bioluminescence, which is frequently seen on clear evenings. This bay in Vieques is ...

Ireland's only saltwater lake is awash with hundreds and thousands of mauve stinger jellyfish as swimmers are being asked to ...

Lough Hyne in West Cork has seen an influx of Pelagia noctiluca jellyfish - a species commonly known as the Portuguese Man of War. Scientists from University College Cork identified the creature and ...

Researchers at UCC say there is now an influx of mauve stingers - aka Pelagia noctiluca - at popular swimming spot Lough Hyne ...

DOG walkers have been warned as hundreds of venomous jellyfish with tentacles that can grow up to 10ft-long have been spotted ...

The spectacle is disturbing and out of the ordinary: this Sunday, October 27, thousands of jellyfish were discovered near Perpignan (France). A couple of walkers by experienced a scene that was ...

Adam Larson and his colleagues at Stanford University in California built a rotating Ferris-wheel-like chamber with which to observe the movements of Pyrocystis noctiluca, a bioluminescent ...

The breathtaking phenomenon of blue waves, known as 'bioluminescence' is caused by bioluminescent phytoplankton, specifically Noctiluca Scintillans, also known as "sea sparkle." It is a ...

In a paper published in the journal Current Biology, researchers describe a species of bioluminescent phytoplankton, called Pyrocystis noctiluca, that balloons to six times their original size ...

One species of bioluminescent phytoplankton called Pyrocystis noctiluca does this by ballooning six times its normal size. This inflation then takes the usually only a few hundred micron-wide ...

The team collected water samples about 160 kilometers off the coast of Hawaii, searching for and observing the behavior of Pyrocystis noctiluca. These 1-millimeter-long unicellular phytoplankton ...