Image: Peter Shearer/National Institute of Water a...  ...s flagellibarba, 'dragon fish' to you and I, uses bioluminescence – biological light – mainly for the l...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbcnRVkzy8...  ...vehicle.  This ctenophore seems to be exhibiting bioluminescence , but what the "lights" actually represent is refl...  ...lor is a survival adaptation, helping to mask the bioluminescence of creatures it ingests, so that it does not itse...