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

that absorb certain wavelengths of ultraviolet light and emit it in blue-green wavelengths that are visible at night and appear to glow. For background, most of us know UV light as its most common ...

In the dim twilight hours, many frogs may be capable of emitting a faint green or orange glow. A survey of hundreds ... was most intense under blue light that dominates at twilight.

After observing a number of frogs, salamanders, and newts under blue and ultraviolet light, the team found that every amphibian they tested could glow, or ‘biofluoresce.’ Although ...

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.