Local people and visitors attend a fish lantern parade in Wangmantian, a village in Huangshan, Anhui province, in February. SHI YALEI/FOR CHINA DAILY As night falls, the sound of drums fills the air ...

Lantern-fish are small, bioluminescent – meaning they give off light – fishes, present in every ocean around the world. They live between the surface and 1000m deep within the so-called “twilight zone ...

Tourists watch a fish lantern performance in Huangshan, Anhui province, on Dec 31. [SHI YALEI/CHINA DAILY] During China's recently concluded Spring Festival holiday, Zhanqi, an ancient village in ...

Edie Widder tells presenter Caroline how lantern fish use a technique called counter illumination to become virtually invisible. By matching the lights on their belly with the little bit of sunlight ...

In World War II, naval sonar operators spotted something strange: a 'false seafloor' hundreds of metres below the surface of the water, that mysteriously moved closer to the surface at night. They ...

Read by Maggie Service from the BBC Radio Drama Company. Not so long ago there was a little crab, his name was Colin. Colin lived on the sea bed, in vibrant tropical warm waters surrounded by the most ...