don't last in this stage four lung, but there are millions of them and we at atlas obscura adore bioluminescencethis is one of the places in the book and if you have been to the smokey mountains the right coming year you get these synchronized fireflies. .. et synchronized fireflies. the same thing happens in a part of malaysia. and in japan there are the firefly squid that light up the bay. so this is a particularly magical example. another place for my part of the burld.wa this is near my neck of the woods. it's off the southeast coast of australia. it's a volcanic shard --metimeso volcanic spire, and it's about 1800 feet tall, known at bold pyramid, and it is signature significance comes from in 2001, two scientist were scaling these treacherous sides because they were looking for a creature that the world had given up on, the creature is known by many names. some call it the walking sausage. its name is more scientifically the lord island stick insects and it looks like a stick insect but it's the size of your palm. that's it. it's this big. so, these scientists in 2001 had gotten a tip from