00:00bioluminescence it's the trait of some of our planet's creatures that lets them glow in the
00:08dark we've seen it in places like puerto rico's bioluminescent bay fireflies jellyfish even some
00:14mushrooms but now experts say that more recently they've discovered the trait in many frog species
00:19as well the find was first made only back in 2017 with researchers finding that the glowing was
00:24happening only at twilight now after years of research biologists with florida state university
00:29say this is a much more momentous find than initially thought as all 151 species from south
00:35america that were studied including some 528 individual frogs all emit some level of light
00:41what's even crazier the fluorescence emitted by these frogs seems to be completely different from other
00:46bioluminescent creatures the frogs all elicit a glow when exposed to wavelengths of light most similar
00:50to twilight what's more they gave off light that would be most easily seen by the frog's eyes that
00:55is to say green as frogs have more photoreceptors that can pick up that color meaning the frogs seem
01:00to be communicating with one another in some way using a light emitted from their own bodies
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