Bioluminescent Shark Found Off the Coast of New Zealand

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The Kitefin Shark Is The World's Largest-Known Luminous Vertebrate

The Kitefin Shark Is The World's Largest-Known Luminous Vertebrate has 187 reviews and 0 ratings. Reviewer wyatt223344 wrote: "sharks are awesome"

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[Hendre]

Thanks for sharing! Bioluminescence fascinates me intensely and it just goes to show that we have so much to still explore. The fact that over 10% of shark species produce light is beyond cool.

 

[Deadeye]

It’s definitely the thing that makes me love glofish so much despite the line breeding. Animals that light up are cool...

 

[The Masked Shadow]

I never even knew sharks produced light. I thought only the animals in the midnight zone produced light; fish like Angler fish, Gulper Eels, and copepods. Also, did you know a Platypus's belly glow under fluorescent light?

 

[Hendre]

Glofish do not "glow" as these sharks do, they simply are either very bright or have a fantastic glow under UV light. The sharks produce their own light in some fashion.

 

[Deadeye]

Glofish do not "glow" as these sharks do, they simply are either very bright or have a fantastic glow under UV light. The sharks produce their own light in some fashion.

Yes, good point.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

I did a current event report on this. It was fun, but my school thinks 4 hours per subject is good for friday homeschool (My school is a G.A.T.E school that has homeschool on fridays).