Bioflourescent Hawksbill Turtle

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Bioflourescent Hawksbill Turtle

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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
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Wow. Cool stuff.

Thanks for sharing.
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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?
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I don't know. It looked to me like biofluorescent algae was growing on the turtle.
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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.
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