Fireflies
March 23, 2012 - Humans may figuratively glow from within, but many species literally emit a natural glow. Here, we celebrate just some of these flashy organisms, such as these fireflies. Photographer Tsuneaki Hiramatsu used slow–shutter speed photos to produce images like this one of firefly signals.
"These images show a selection of many extraordinary organisms that produce light, in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History's upcoming Creatures of Light: Nature’s Bioluminescence exhibition," curator John Sparks of the museum’s Department of Ichthyology, told Discovery News.
Bioluminescence refers to organisms that "generate light through a chemical reaction."
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