Luminescent Sharks Found Off New Zealand

Kitefin sharks, blackbelly lanternsharks and southern lanternsharks living deep in the ocean off New Zealand are bioluminescent, which may camouflage them from predators or provide light for hunting, researchers reported in Frontiers in Marine Science. Bioluminescence in deep-sea organisms “must play an important role structuring the biggest ecosystem on our planet,” the researchers wrote