From their flaming red bodies, they emit glowing blue lights to defend the prey in their transparent stomachs.
Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and ...
SeaGlass Carousel in Battery Park (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The New York Aquarium opened in 1896 in Battery Park’s Castle Clinton, filling the sandstone fort with specimens of ...