Fluorescent Eels Discovered and Photographed by Accident in the Caribbean
by Glen Tickle from Laughing Squid on (#TGD5)
Marine biologist David Gruber was photobombed by a fluorescent eel while photographing fluorescent coral on a trip to Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean in 2011. This was the first time such a creature was photographed in the wild.
Gruber and colleagues have now published their findings about the what makes the unique animal glow in a paper in the journal PLOS ONE.
images via PLOS ONE