Scientists say they have found that three deepwater shark species living off New Zealand glow in the dark. The species were collected from the Chatham Rise - an area of ocean floor to the east of ...

Unlike albinism, where there is a complete lack of melanin and the iris is red due to underlying blood vessels, leucistic ...

But there’s a new study out of Australia that shows some promise in deterring shark attacks.

This is the first time the pigment condition has been observed in this species of shark, but the animal appeared healthy and ...

Gruber and his colleague Jason Crawford at Yale University noticed that the sharks' skin had two tones, light and dark, and after extracting chemicals discovered a fluorescent molecule only ...

It hides in the deep - and its black skin keeps it camouflaged - but it also glows in the dark. The ninja lanternshark was discovered by a team at the Pacific Shark Research Center, in Moss ...

Here’s how. Swimsuit color does matter in the water, even though sharks are colorblind. They’re keen observers of contrast, so bright colors in dark water, and vice versa, could you make you ...