Provides information about the different types of animals that create their own light, and looks at how bioluminescent creatures use their special ability.
Presents an introduction to deep sea environments, describing the diversity of plant and animal life found in ocean off the coast of the Bahaman Islands, test, and examines the impact of human exploration on the fragile ecosystem.
Contains an introduction to bioluminescence in ocean life, explaing how it works, and giving examples of sea creatures that glow, such as ostracods, Bermuda fire worms, and flashlight fish.
Describes bioluminescent insects, plants, and sea animals and the uses these creatures make of their self-generated lights, such as communication, finding food, and attracting mates.
After his home is burned by lightning during a summer storm, Mousekin is frightened by a strange pale light in the dark forest which he eventually learns to be fox fire, a glow caused by fungi in decaying wood.
Full-color photographs and text explore applications of biochemistry, genetics, and electronics through stories from seventeenth-century alchemist, Robert Boyle, and other adventurers who first saw bizarre creatures glowing in the oceans.
Introduces some of the many plants and animals that glow in the dark and explains this intriguing phenomenon. Includes a fold-out poster that glows in the dark.
