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Scientists discovered a flying pink squirrel
You've heard of flying squirrels. But hot-pink flying squirrels? Someone get Pixar on the line.
A new study in the Journal of Mammology describes how the North American flying squirrel, or Glaucomys, fluoresces pink at night. The researchers can't say for sure why, but communication and camouflage top their list of theories. Squirrel discos do not appear to be a possibility.
The hot-pink find came about by chance.
In the spring of 2017, Jon Martin, a professor in the forestry department at Wisconsin's Northland College, was scanning his backyard with an ultraviolet flashlight to see which lichens, mosses and plants fluoresced. That's when he spotted a flying squirrel, and noticed it glowed hot pink under the ultraviolet light.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Saturday February 09 2019, @06:20AM
So, the defunding and union-busting of ex-governor and Marquette drop-out Scott Walker is finally affecting higher education and research in Wisconsin. When you vote for Republicans, you get stupid. Happened in Montana, when they had a Republican Governor, the highest academic attainment in his administration was a GED. No shit. Walker has destroyed what was one of the premier Research 1 Universities in the nation, UW-Madison. But now, all we get from the entire UW system is pink squirrels. It is almost as if just plain "squirrel!" does not work anymore. So sad, too bad, Trump's dad.