Waves light up blue in Morro Bay early Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, thanks to tiny, single-celled creatures called bioluminescent dinoflagellates that produce bursts of light when disturbed. Chloe Jones ...

Beachgoers watch and record images of bioluminescent waves breaking in Huntington Beach on Jan. 2, 2024. Bioluminescence is light emitted by living things through chemical reactions in their bodies.

Saint Patrick’s Day might be all about green, but in Laguna Beach Wednesday night, March 17, it was a bright blue hue behind cheers at the beach. Photographers Mark Girardeau and Patrick Coyne waited ...

Waves light up blue in Morro Bay early Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, thanks to tiny, single-celled creatures called bioluminescent dinoflagellates that produce bursts of light when disturbed. Chloe Jones ...

With a boom in social media attention over the last few years, photographers, swimmers, surfers -- even the occasional dog-- have experienced the splendor of bioluminescence, a phenomenon that turns ...

Friday night beach night, fam: Pack a cooler and some blankets, then head out to the coast this weekend if you want to catch the return of the blue rollers along San Diego's coast. Vishwas Lokesh, a ...

Jan. 5 (UPI) --An unusual type of algae is coming close to shore in California, leading to a phenomenon known as bioluminescent -- or glowing -- waves. Visitors to Orange County beaches this week ...

Every wave that broke glowed like a burst of blue lightning in the ocean as it hit the shore. The bioluminescence reaction that creates a bright jolt of blue as phytoplankton are disturbed showed up ...