Pandemic Escape: Glow-In-The-Dark Corals Light Up The Deep Sea

Way, way down in the oceans' darkest depths, lights glow and sparkle. For millennia, bioluminescence has been seen in oceans around the world. Indeed, around 50 A.D., Pliny the Elder wrote that one could rub the slime of a certain luminous jellyfish, possibly Pelagia noctiluca, onto a walking stick to make it double as a torch. …

Pic o’ the Week: Ocean Light

As Northerners soak up the summer solstice sun, we're reminded that the ocean has its own creatures who add a glow to seas below. Rob Spray snapped this lovely pic of a colony of Lightbulb Sea Squirts, nicknamed for the way they seem to emanate light. These sea squirts are actually transparent zooids whose larvae …

World Oceans Day – 6 Things You Can do to Celebrate & Help

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea." - e.e. cummings Celebrate the oceans today, and do something: 1. Be ocean-creative today - add your ocean photo, poem, message to the Ocean Story - a boat that will be wrapped in these photos and messages and …