Scorpions fluoresce—they glow a bright green color—in ultraviolet light, “such as an electric black light or natural moonlight.” Professor Carl Kloock of Cal State Bakersfield has around six ideas as to why.
In this sponsored Veritasium video, Derek Muller heads into the desert at night to talk about some of Kloock’s hypotheses—proposed explanations “made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation”—and learns about the experiments Kloock created to test them. Along the way, they catch a few of these glowing arachnids for a closer look....
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In this sponsored Veritasium video, Derek Muller heads into the desert at night to talk about some of Kloock’s hypotheses—proposed explanations “made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation”—and learns about the experiments Kloock created to test them. Along the way, they catch a few of these glowing arachnids for a closer look....
The above comes directly from their website. Click here to read more.
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