As It Happens6:32The mating dance of sea fireflies is ‘the coolest fireworks show that you’ve ever seen’: scientist
Nicholai Hensley has spent countless hours standing waist-deep in pitch-black waters off the coast of Panama, watching thousands of tiny sea creatures perform dazzling displays of bright blue light.
The creatures — each the size of a sesame seed — belong to a recently discovered species of ostracod, also known as sea fireflies, whose males lure potential mates with a synchronized dance powered by iridescent mucus.
“It looks phenomenal,” Hensley, an evolutionary biologist at Cornell University in the U.K., told As It Happens guest host Peter Armstrong.
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