From glowing cats to wombats, fluorescent mammals are much more common than you'd think
- Written by: Kenny Travouillon, Curator of Mammals, Western Australian Museum
Recently, several mammals have been reported to “glow” under ultraviolet (UV) light, including our beloved platypus. But no one knew how common it was among mammals until now.
Our research, published in Royal Society Open Science today, found this glow – known as fluorescence – is extremely common. Almost every mammal we...
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