You’d be lucky enough to spot a wild alpine newt in the first place. But if you were to catch a glimpse of the spotted amphibians right at dusk, you might be shocked to see a neon green belly glowing up at you.
Under the right circumstances, alpine newts glow in the dark. So do at least 31 other amphibian species — something researchers didn’t know until a herpetologist and ichthyologist decided to literally shine a special light on them and watched as skin, mucus, bones and more lit up in green and orange.