bioluminescence

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The bioluminescence -- they use the lights for attracting mates and attracting prey and communicating.

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  1. noun Emission of visible light by living organisms such as the firefly and various fish, fungi, and bacteria.

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  • When night crept over the island, the mimevines turned to mimicking creatures capa - ble of bioluminescence. —  The Moment Of The Magician
  • The bioluminescence -- they use the lights for attracting mates and attracting prey and communicating. —  David Gallo on life in the deep oceans
  • Through experiments that included hot and cold testing and oxygen depletion studies, Deheyn and Latz found that the bioluminescence is active in temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit). —  innovations-report
  • They were all different colours, enhanced brilliant by the light, there were a couple of dark green types, a slightly larger brown one, the squids had some bioluminescence which is always nice, they moved against the crowd and slightly lower. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • "What you've been seeing is bioluminescence, very similar to that produced by microorganisms in the tropical seas of Earth. —  A Meeting with Medusa
 

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