Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...

Biofluorescence is seen on an emperor bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi ... and emits it as a different color. In recent years, Museum Curator John Sparks, an ichthyologist, and his ...

Birds-of-paradise can emit green, yellow and pale blue light from their bodies. It’s believed this ability – known as biofluorescence – helps the birds to stand out or hide in their tropical forest ...

so you can really only see any other color that comes back. There are 45 different species of birds-of-paradise, and I was able to analyze all of the species... and of those, 37 of them are ...

This species of birds ... colour. Most of the species are found in eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia. Scientists discovered that 37 out of 45 species of birds-of-paradise ...

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(CNN) — Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but birds-of-paradise are especially flamboyant with hues of emerald, lemon, cobalt and ruby.