So Apparently Platypuses Glow in the Dark
Of all the weird animals that exist in the world, platypuses are up there with the weirdest, and last year scientists discovered something even more peculiar about their fur: it glows! What may be even more strange, though, is how little we know about this new illumination!
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Sources:
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2017/07/the-mystery-behind-a-scorpions-glow/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/puffin-beaks-are-fluorescent-and-theyre-not-only-ones-180968724/
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/living-light.html
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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/for-some-reason-new-world-flying-squirrels-fluoresce-pink/
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https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article-abstract/100/1/21/5299493
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330637392_Ultraviolet_fluorescence_discovered_in_New_World_flying_squirrels_Glaucomys
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/platypuses-glow-green-under-ultraviolet-light-180976196/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/platypus-glow-blue-green-ultraviolet-light-fluorescent-fur
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-05586-5
Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trirachodon.jpg
Platypus specimen images courtesy of J. Martin, Northland College, in Anich et al. 2020
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Sources:
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2017/07/the-mystery-behind-a-scorpions-glow/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/puffin-beaks-are-fluorescent-and-theyre-not-only-ones-180968724/
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/living-light.html
https://eamcetzoology.blogspot.com/2009/09/bioluminescence-vs-fluorescence.html
https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/mamm.1985.49.issue-2/mamm.1985.49.2.249/mamm.1985.49.2.249.xml
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/for-some-reason-new-world-flying-squirrels-fluoresce-pink/
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mamm/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027.xml
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article-abstract/100/1/21/5299493
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330637392_Ultraviolet_fluorescence_discovered_in_New_World_flying_squirrels_Glaucomys
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/platypuses-glow-green-under-ultraviolet-light-180976196/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/platypus-glow-blue-green-ultraviolet-light-fluorescent-fur
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-05586-5
Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trirachodon.jpg
Platypus specimen images courtesy of J. Martin, Northland College, in Anich et al. 2020
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