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Biofluorescent sea turtle

dr. dolittle | September 30, 2015

Check out this neat video from National Geographic's emerging explorer, David Gruber (a marine biologist at the City University of New York) in which he discusses coming across what he claims is the first observation of biofluorescence in a sea turtle: Video source: YouTube

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