Platypuses glow an eerie blue-green under UV light – AlKhaleej Today

Duck bill laying eggs Platypuses just got a little stranger: it turns out that her fur is glowing green and blue underneath ultraviolet (UV light. Under visible light, the extremely dense fur of a platypus which insulates and protects it in cold water is a cloudy brown, so the trippy glow that was visible under UV light on a stuffed museum specimen was a big surprise.
Biofluorescence absorbs and emits light of a different color is common in fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles. But the trait is…

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