Glowing #SeaCreatures Have Been Lighting Up the #Oceans for More Than Half a Billion Years https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/glowing-sea-creatures-have-been-lighting-up-the-oceans-for-more-than-half-a-billion-years-180984214/ by Riley Black

#Evolution of #bioluminescence in #Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia: Danielle DeLeo et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2626

"New research on branching #animals known as #octocorals pushes the early days of bioluminescence back over 200 million years"

Glowing Sea Creatures Have Been Lighting Up the Oceans for More Than Half a Billion Years

New research on branching animals known as octocorals pushes the early days of bioluminescence back over 200 million years

Smithsonian Magazine