Who Makes It?

In “Life of Pie” there was a scene where whole ocean started glowing as if the stars are shimmering underwater there were many beautiful organisms that appeared to be glowing in the ocean. The visuals were alluring and mysterious.

Who were those animals do they really exist or it was the only game of graphics and VFX? Let’s Find out.

Marine Organisms who Emits Light

Alot of species is gifted with this beautiful power to emit their own light only with the presence of bioluminescence that is almost found in many of the marine organisms like, bacteria, jellyfish, worms, crustaceans, sea stars, fish, algae and sharks etc. These are not just the few names that emit their light, In fishes alone there are more than 1,500 breed/species that illuminate, but as mentioned in few cases some species might not have the bioluminescence present but still they emit light with the help of symbiotic relationship as they take in bacteria’s or other luminesce organisms to earn the ability of lighting up with an example of Hawaiian bobtail squid that has the organs that light up with the help of bioluminescent bacteria that take over the host within the hours of its birth, yet marine organisms already contains the chemical that is required to produce the bioluminescence that light up.

With the increased number of species that create bioluminescence is the evidence of evolution within the variations in the chemical reactions and the adaptation of different colour and pattern of light developed many times over and at least 40 separate times! Number will continue to grow as per the researches continues time to time. As per the research and study in 2018, scientist found that the ray-finned fishes evolved their bioluminescence for about 27 separate times and the evolution never stops hopefully new variations and evolution will be evident in future. (E. Widder, April 2018)