![]() This kind of biofluorescence only happens when blue light hits the amphibian, whose skin-and bones, in the case of the marbled salamander-absorb that wavelength and emit a different wavelength, usually an electric green. ![]() Even the marbled salamander’s tiny toe bones fluoresce brightly-oh, and as does its cloaca, perhaps as a kind of sexual display.ĭon't bother going to your neighborhood pond with hopes of witnessing this phenomenon under regular old “white light,” or daylight. ![]() Cranwell's horned frog is striped in a nuclear glow. The tiger salamander suddenly pops with brilliant green spots. Today in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers for the first time show that amphibians glow if you throw blue light on them. Like, literally, this specific azure light. You’ve never seen amphibians in this light before.
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