As a fast and efficient means of transport, jellyfish-like organisms could play a major role in the marine carbon cycle. Marine biologists report that dead bodies of the marine organism Pyrosoma ...

Pyrosomes, named after the Greek words for 'fire bodies' due their bright bioluminescence, are pelagic tunicates that spend their entire lives swimming in the open ocean. They are made up of many ...

Pyrosoma species are commonly encountered as surface or midwater planktonic organisms. Among photographs taken of the sea-floor of Cook Strait, New Zealand, two exposures show what are undoubtedly ...

A QUT researcher has observed a rare ocean phenomenon off the coast of Timor-Leste revealing a surprising ally in the fight for coral reef survival: giant, gelatinous plankton known as pyrosomes. The ...

A compilation of manually stimulated Pyrosoma atlanticum bioluminescence taken soon after collection in Brazil. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

A new study describes a bioluminescent gene that could be the reason that so-called "sea pickles," or pyrosomes, an underwater free-floating colony of thousands of tiny animals, reverberate in ...

CBC Canada is reporting that millions of the sea creatures have been spotted off the coast of British Columbia this year, far more than was seen in the past two years when they first appeared.

Object Details Collector J. Joseph Eric D. Forsbergh Expedition Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Ocean/Sea/Gulf South Pacific Ocean Vessel Swansong R/V Record Last Modified 10 Jan 2013 Site ...

Object Details Collector Texas A & M University Expedition USAP Ocean/Sea/Gulf South Pacific Ocean, Coral Sea Vessel Eltanin R/V Record Last Modified 8 Feb 2016 Site Number 2074 Specimen Count 1 ...