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A new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York celebrates luminescent wildlife – and may introduce the first known biofluorescent eel
Creatures of Light: Nature’s bioluminescence, American Museum of Natural History, New York, until 6 January 2013
AN EEL glows green under the glare of a blue light. It may be one of the first wild fluorescent vertebrates known to science, but it’s not making its debut in a pre-eminent research journal. Instead, the…
