Beginning in late 2020 news of various creatures demonstrating fluorescence under ultraviolet (UV) light began to inundate the internet. The trend began with what else but platypuses, then progressed ...

James Cook University scientists have been trying to discover exactly why some animals glow under ultraviolet light. JCU researcher Linda Reinhold led the study, which is published in PLOS One. She ...

Garden dormice may not seem particularly flamboyant. In fact, the small, brownish-white rodents spend much of their life trying not to be seen. But new research shows that under the right light, these ...

Scorpions are creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, and come with an evolutionary ooky — that is, the ability to glow under UV (ultraviolet) light. For decades, the reason why scorpions ...