Most deep-sea creatures can glow in the dark, but this light-emitting characteristic is rare in terrestrial vertebrates
, which are endemic to Madagascar. Micro-CT scans revealed that a bright blue glow emanated from the lizards' skeletons and shined through their skin.lizards also have four layers of thin skin
"We could hardly believe our eyes when we illuminated the chameleons in our collection with a UV lamp," lead author David Prötzel, a doctoral student at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, says."And almost all species showed blue, previously invisible patterns on the head, some even over the whole body."
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