The casque of a southern cassowary glows blue-green in ultraviolet light. This cassowary, named Ginger, from the Cassowary Conservation Project in Florida, was the first living cassowary that showed ...
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Scientists shined UV light on world’s most dangerous bird and found a hidden glow
On a warm night in Florida, Todd Green walked up to a six-foot-tall cassowary named Ginger with a flashlight and a strange expectation. The light was ultraviolet, invisible to human eyes. Green, an ...
Ginger, a six-foot-tall southern cassowary, has a calm temperament that makes her receptive to experiments. On a warm March night in Florida in 2021, scientists wanted to find out if keratin—a protein ...
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