I remember visiting the Grand Canyon a few years back and getting a post-sunset tour from the park ranger. He took a ultraviolet flashlight and looked around at the desert around us. It took him maybe ten seconds to find a scorpion fluorescing in the blacklight.
I spent the rest of the hiking trip sleeping on the picnic tables.
I haven't been shown the fluorescent, flying squirrels, but I'm thinking I wouldn't be nearly as scared of them as I was of the scorpions.
Read more about this at NatGeo or Smithsonian.
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