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UV your Platypus

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The fur of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), one of only five extant species of monotremes (egg-laying mammals), absorbs ultraviolet light at wavelengths of 200-400 nm and re-emits visible light, making it fluoresce, according to new research from Northland College and the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. This is the first observation of biofluorescence in a monotreme.
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/ultravi ... 09026.html
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