Puffin beaks are fluorescent and we had no idea

'It’s amazing, a real fluorescence,' said English scientist Jamie Dunning, who discovered puffin beaks glow under UV light. (Submitted by Jamie Dunning) A scientist in England has made an enlightening discovery about Atlantic puffins — under a UV light, their bills glow like a freshly cracked glow stick. "It was sort of discovered by accident," said Jamie Dunning, the ornithologist who first saw the beaks light up.