And it's real fluorescence, Dunning emphasizes: something about those parts of the puffin bill is allowing that UV light to be absorbed and re-emitted as a bright glowing light. It's just not ...

New Brunswick UNB biologist says he, too, discovered UV glow of puffin's beak — 8 years ago Tony Diamond says he should have published discovery after he stumbled across it with fellow scientists ...

It’s odd that the beaks glow under UV light because Auks, the family of birds that Arctic puffins belong to, are thought to have poor UV vision, according to Dunning.

Puffins might be small, but they have remarkable beaks Puffins are small seabirds, standing just 20 centimetres tall and weighing about the same as a can of Coke. However, they have a large, ...

A scientist in England has made an enlightening discovery about Atlantic puffins — under a UV light, their bills glow like a freshly cracked glow stick. "It was sort of discovered by accident," said ...