Bioluminescence
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Biological light production, overwhelmingly the dominant source of light in the ocean below the epipelagic. Used for luring prey, counter-illumination camouflage against the faint downwelling light of the twilight zone, startle defence, and signalling. It is the reason the deep sea is dark but not lightless, and the reason many deep-sea eyes are retained rather than lost. A process, not a place.
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