Flying squirrels glow pink, thanks to fluorescence

> Anich says that Jon Martin—a forestry professor and coauthor on the paper—was exploring a Wisconsin forest at night, using a UV flashlight to scan the canopy for lichens, fungi, plants, and frogs that occasionally fluoresce. “One evening,” says Anich, “he heard the chirp of a flying squirrel at a bird feeder, pointed the flashlight at it, and was amazed to see pink fluorescence.”

I like that we're literally hunting for fluorescent organisms. I suspect that kind of bioprospecting for high-value exotic genetic traits will become more and more interesting as we move forward with our biological engineering capabilities.