Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns serve.

Researchers at James Cook University (JCU) have been investigating why some Australian mammals glow under ultraviolet (UV) light. Led by researcher Linda Reinhold, the team aimed to understand the ...

In the case of animals, this can be due to proteins or ... Some rodents have a pink glow under UV light and platypuses glow blue-green. Our team came together because we were curious about ...

Biofluorescence occurs when animals take in ultraviolet light ... venomous swimmer of Australia—glows a bluish-green under unfiltered UV light as well as under UV light with a yellow filter.

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One by one the mammals went under the spectrophotometer ... would provide enough UV to make this happen. But it’s difficult to imagine any utility for some animals newly added to the glow ...

It occurs in many marine animals, some insects and millipedes ... dormice stored at the Estonian Museum of Natural History under the UV light. These specimens also displayed photoluminescence ...

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LONDON -- Over the last few years, fluorescence under ultraviolet light has been reported among many animals, including birds ... "apparent fluorescence" under UV light, finding "apparent ...

Ahh, the world of glowing animals. From wombats and platypuses ... have been found to have feathers that glow pink under ultraviolet light (UV). Researchers collected feathers from the owls ...

James Cook University scientists have been trying to discover exactly why some animals glow under ultraviolet light ... quolls and possums to glow bright pink in UV light. "Unexpectedly, we ...