have eyes that glow when light shines on them. This is due to a shiny mirrored layer behind the retina, the tapetum lucidum, that helps these animals see better in the dark by reflecting ...

If you’d like to see the firefly petunia, Sunnyside Gardens has a dark room where you can go in, let your eyes adjust to the dark, and see the flowers in their glowing glory.

It’s the result of evolutionary mechanisms which allow certain species to see better in the dark. First, there’s one thing to clarify. When you see these animals at night, their eyes don’t actually ...

Light Bio's firefly petunias are glowing in gardens across Iowa, but time is running out to get some from local garden centers this year.

Specialized filters in the light-sensitive cells of their eyes make ... and females in a dark room by shining blue and ultraviolet light on them. Most species ended up glowing green or yellow ...

For Karen Sarkisyan, there are few things more awe-inspiring than a dark room full of glowing petunias. He wants more people to experience that magic and envisions a future lush with ...

Quattrini has spent about a decade testing living octocorals collected from the ocean by sequestering the creatures under a blanket or in a dark room and ... have large eyes in midnight water ...

Flashlight fish favor dark environments like caves and overhangs. In those conditions, they end up looking like a pair of spooky glowing eyes with no body, as in the video above. It makes sense ...