Scorpion and Its Babies Look Unreal Under UV Light
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If you’re wondering how to begin that
X-Files spec you’ve been working on since 2012, or just want more evidence that organisms can be bizarre and psychedelic across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, check out animals under UV light. Because everything from springhares to platypuses glow under ultraviolet emissions. And, perhaps most terrifyingly, scorpions.
In the video above, which comes via Laughing Squid, artist and designer, The Butterfly Babe (a.k.a. Sarah Folts), shows one such scorpion. Folts notes in the video’s description that the scorpion has proteins in its exoskeleton that react to UV light and consequently give off a green glow. Fulton adds that the exact reason for the scorpions’ fluorescence is unknown, but biologists have theorized it may help the predatory arachnids to find each other. Or, biologists speculate, it’s simply an evolutionary fluke.
Watch a Scorpion and Its Young Glow Different Colors Under UV Light
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Brown scorpion and its babies glow stunning shades of blue and purple under UV after light
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