You’ve heard of jazz hands? Well, these bats have glow toes. When ultraviolet light shines onto the Mexican free-tailed bat’s extraordinarily hairy toes, they light up like a Christmas tree.

Do the feet usually look like that?” What they saw was nothing short of magical. The bats’ toes were glowing a brilliant cyan under the UV light. Talk about a happy accident! Now, you might be ...

Ecologist Rodrigo Medellin coats the bats he catches in harmless UV dust, which they lick off and digest. The glowing dust passes through their system, and by tracking the glowing bat droppings ...

Researchers at James Cook University (JCU) have been investigating why some Australian mammals glow under ultraviolet (UV) light. Led by researcher Linda Reinhold, the team aimed to understand the ...

Many animals, such as birds, reptiles, insects and fish glow in this way ... the animals they looked at included cats, polar bears, bats, mountain zebra, wombats, dwarf spinner dolphins, leopards ...