Puffin beaks are fluorescent and we had no idea

By News on the Net -- CBC —— Bio and Archives April 7, 2018

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'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.