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

They found that all three specimens, which included a male and a female, glow blue-green under UV light. The last common ancestor of monotremes like platypuses, marsupials like opossums ...

Here’s how it works. Duck-billed, egg-laying platypuses just got a little weirder: It turns out their fur glows green and blue under ultraviolet (UV) light. Under visible light a platypus’s ...

France and French Guiana under UV light 360 and 400 nanometers in wavelength. Every nest glowed under the light: the nests from Vietnam shone green, while the others emitted a bluish tone.

Scorpions are creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, and come with an evolutionary ooky — that is, the ability to glow under ... of ultraviolet light and emit it in blue-green ...

A video shared to Reddit in early May 2021 appeared to show a piece of what you might call real-life kryptonite — a brightly glowing, green-hued hyalite opal that the original poster of the ...

Under regular light, they appeared sea-foam green. But when they were exposed to UV light, their entire bodies emitted a bright, neon green glow. “I was like ‘wow,’” said Dr. Juhasz-Dora ...

were bluish green. To expand their observations, the researchers examined dead dormice stored at the Estonian Museum of Natural History under the UV light. These specimens also displayed ...

The team found fluorescence in the animal's bones, teeth, claws, fur, feathers and skin, which glowed red, yellow, green, pink and blue under the UV light. Fluorescence is a type of glowing the ...

A study led by scientists from the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has revealed that these birds emit a neon-like glow under ultraviolet (UV) light.