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.

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 ...

Fluorescence is caused by an animal absorbing light and bouncing it back out again, and in nature, it’s not a new thing. Fluorescence occurs across only a handful of mammals but they span three ...

The platypus, a species unique to Australia, was reintroduced into the country’s oldest national park just south of Sydney on Friday in a landmark conservation project after disappearing from ...