Vombets have been found to glow under UV light.
Kenny Travovillon
Australian Australian fauna is known to be one of the most endangered and volatile on the planet. There are plenty of spiders, snakes and sharks, not to mention a whole host of bax jellyfish and creepy crawlina. But less stressful – if thinking about them obscures feelings of doom and gloom, maybe this will brighten your mood.
October In October, U.S. A group of scientists has published a study in mammals in mammals showing a gentle Australian platypus glow in the dark. In light of that discovery, scientists at the Western Australian Australian Museum have conducted further tests to detect the glow of more Australian Australian mammals and marsupials.
According to the Australian Australian Broadcasting Corporation, after reading the original study, Kenny Traveville, curator of the Mem lo log at the Western Australian Australian Museum, took an ultraviolet (UV) light for self-verification of the claims.
“We borrowed it and turned off the lights in the collection and looked around for something that glitters and doesn’t glow,” Tru Weullo told ABC. “The first platypus we checked was clearly. We shone the light and they were also glowing, it supports the research.”
The team then examined other specimens to see if the glowing feature extended to other marsupials. Upon attempting to light up the marsupial moles, bilbis and gerbots, the experiment was successful again.
For no Why They shine in the dark, we are still not 100% sure. Travovilon speculates that it may be a case of identifying fellow members of their species in the dark, as most of the shining specimens were nocturnal.
“The benefit is probably so they can see their species from a distance and they can reach them because they know it’s safe to go to the animal,” he told ABC.
Whatever the reason, crazy mammals shine on you.
