Barnacles and vegetation seem to thrive on various parts of the creature's body. On the ventral side of the body, directly below each of the flippers is a far smaller fin. On the underside of the pod is a teardrop-shaped photophore. At the tip of each flipper a small pod is attached by a long tendril. The flippers have a dark blue top side and a slightly reflective underside, brown in colour with small glowing orange spots.
On either side of the Glow Whale, two huge, sail-like flippers extend diagonally upwards. These run along the sides of its body from the head to the lower back, which is covered in white spots. Well defined ridges are visible on the dorsal side. The body displays countershading, with the dorsal side being grayish blue and the ventral side light blue. Atop the head a pair of translucent blue 'horns' can be seen. Each eye has a pill-shaped photophore directly in front of it. Its eyes have yellow irises and large black pupils. The Glow Whale is huge and whale-like in form, with the body ending in a fluked tail.
