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Marsupials glow under UV light – and until recently, no one had ever captured it on camera.
For the first time, a wild eastern quoll – a rare, carnivorous marsupial found only in Tasmania – has been photographed glowing in ultraviolet. The shot, taken by Australian photographer Ben Alldridge, reveals the quoll’s fur shimmering with biofluorescence, a neon-like glow created when fur absorbs UV light and re-emits it at a visible wavelength.
Other mammals – from wombats to polar bears – have been known to glow, but this is the first time the phenomenon has been documented in a quoll in its natural habitat. 