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

James Cook University scientists have been trying to discover exactly why some animals glow under ultraviolet light. JCU researcher ... displaying pink, yellow, blue and/or white colors.

The results are beautiful as the beige and gray fossil scallops glow in shades of orange, yellow and red ... Modern scallops don't fluoresce under UV light. According to Wolkenstein, the compounds ...

Most of the mice’s fur glowed a bright purple colour, which looked reddish pink in photographs taken with a yellow filter ... of Natural History under the UV light. These specimens also ...

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 ...

Photographs showed that 125 species — 54 nocturnal and 71 diurnal — glowed under some sort of UV light, and the most fluorescent animals were typically white or pale yellow in color.

The fluorescent colors observed including red, yellow, green ... Australia's most treasured species -- was also found to fluoresce under UV light. "To date, reports of fluorescence among mammal ...

Move over monotremes and the range of rodents known to glow: over one hundred other furry creatures do, too, new research shows, vastly increasing the number of mammals known to show the spooky trait.

The Columbus Crew will debut a new secondary uniform during the 2025 season that will be the first kit in Major League Soccer history to use UV-activated technology. The uniforms will honor the ...