This is mind-boggling. As the article says, it's the first biofluorescent reptile ever recorded. After I read the first article I began doing searches to see if it might be some sort of prank or something.
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/vid ... turedvideo
Bioflourescent Hawksbill Turtle
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Re: Bioflourescent Hawksbill Turtle
Wow. Cool stuff.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
Re: Bioflourescent Hawksbill Turtle
Is the premise that all hawksbills are biofluorescent and they simply hadn't been observed in this way before? Or that generally speaking they are not, and this animal is a unique or very unusual Hawksbill?
Re: Bioflourescent Hawksbill Turtle
I don't know. It looked to me like biofluorescent algae was growing on the turtle.
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Re: Bioflourescent Hawksbill Turtle
Looks like their cameras are broken because EVERYTHING, including the turtle is bioflourescent or is it simply over done with color saturation. Im going with the latter.
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It's a little misleading, because they don't bother to explain the difference between "biofluorescent" and "bioluminescent." The turtle isn't actually glowing in the dark like a hatchetfish, it's just reflecting the colored light they are hitting it with. Still kind of cool, but it's not a glow-in-the-dark turtle, as is being touted on some websites.