Over the last few years, researchers have discovered that flying squirrels, wombats and platypuses all glow under UV lights. Now, we can add pocket gophers to the list.

She shares three new corn recipes and tips. And, over the last few years, researchers have discovered that pocket gophers, flying squirrels, wombats and platypuses all glow under UV lights.

In the past few years, researchers have found a handful of mammals that glow under UV lights: flying squirrels, wombats and platypuses. Now, we can add pocket gophers to the list. As Molly Samuel ...

In your look at the platypus, you write that its “pelt glows in UV light, which makes no sense for a nocturnal animal” 8 May, p 41. It only makes no sense if you assume the fluorescence is the ...

Glowing in the dark will remain a platypus mystery (8 May, p 41). These animals close their eyes when swimming underwater and find prey with their sensitive “rubbery” bills.