For over 400 years, sailors have encountered a fascinating phenomenon where vast stretches of the ocean glow with an ...

Though many may equate this glow with the more familiar sparkle of bioluminescent plankton in shallow waves, milky seas are vastly different. They are enormous—sometimes stretching over 100,000 square ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.Related video above: Check out this amazing video of a kayaker paddling ...

The role of milky seas in the ecosystemMilky seas are different from the more common bioluminescent ocean events caused by a type of phytoplankton known as dinoflagellates. These organisms emit a ...