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What causes the beautiful blue-green lights you see glowing in the ocean waves at night?

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What causes the beautiful blue-green lights you see glowing in the ocean waves at night?

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The glittering light seen in seawater at night can be attributed to bioluminescence, a handy evolutionary phenomenon that gives certain land and sea creatures the ability to glow in the dark. Why do some organisms glow? We fished around the Yahoo! Bioluminescence category to shed some light on this creature feature. We learned that scientists believe the ability to glow probably originated in ocean organisms and was used for the following: • Finding or attracting prey — Just like the glow-in-the-dark bait used by fishermen at night, bioluminescent organisms use their eerie light to attract prey in the dark waters of the ocean.

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