{"id":115366,"date":"2020-11-01T07:25:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-mystery-of-the-platypus-deepens-with-the-discovery-of-its-biofluorescent-fur"},"modified":"2020-11-01T07:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T15:25:54","slug":"the-mystery-of-the-platypus-deepens-with-the-discovery-of-its-biofluorescent-fur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/the-mystery-of-the-platypus-deepens-with-the-discovery-of-its-biofluorescent-fur","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of The Platypus Deepens With The Discovery of Its Biofluorescent Fur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-mystery-of-the-platypus-deepens-with-the-discovery-of-its-biofluorescent-fur3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The platypus has gotten a whole lot stranger. Not only does it look like a chimera of different animals, a mammal that lays eggs and has venom, it\u2019s now found to have bioflourescent fur.<\/p>\n<p>It glows green under UV light.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists are seeing the Australian platypus in a whole new light. Under an ultraviolet lamp, this bizarre-looking creature appears even more peculiar than normal, glowing a soft, greenish-blue hue instead of the typical brown we\u2019re used to seeing.<\/p>\n<p>The recent discovery has not been found in any other monotreme species \u2013 a primitive type of mammal \u2013 and it has scientists wondering: Have we been overlooking an ancient world of fluorescent fur?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiofluorescence has now been observed in placental New World flying squirrels, marsupial New World opossums, and the monotreme platypus of Australia and Tasmania,\u201d the authors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/view\/journals\/mamm\/ahead-of-print\/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027\/article-10.1515-mammalia-2020-0027.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">write<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The platypus has gotten a whole lot stranger. Not only does it look like a chimera of different animals, a mammal that lays eggs and has venom, it\u2019s now found to have bioflourescent fur. It glows green under UV light. Scientists are seeing the Australian platypus in a whole new light. Under an ultraviolet lamp, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}