article_snippet.sent: Amazing pictures have emerged of  blue fluorescent algae lighting up Australia's east coast.
article_snippet.sent: A similar display was shown in Sydney's Manly Beach Manly Beach back in August 2014 where an oceanography expert told Daily Mail Australia there was no need to be concerned about the algae. '
article_snippet.sent: the neon glow illuminated one of Australia's popular beaches is caused by Noctiluca scintillans, which is a single celled phytoplankton - the algae of the sea - which blossoms in the spring and the autumn and in 90 per cent of occasions occurs due to natural causes,' Iain Suthers, of University of New South WalesNew South Wales, said.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Suthers explained that the bizarre carnivorous cell, which preys on another type of algae called diatoms, gives off the luminous glow as a defence mechanism.
article_snippet.sent: Incredible pictures have emerged of blue fluorescent algae lighting up Australia's east coast .
article_snippet.sent: Photographer Andy Hutchinson captured trhe neon glow illuminating one of Australia's popular beaches .
article_snippet.sent: Iain Suthers, of University of New South WalesNew South Wales, says the algae blossoms in the spring and the autumn .
highlights_snippet.sent: Iain Suthers, of University of New South Wales, says the algae blossoms in the spring and the autumn .