Scientists Find Springhares Glow Under Ultraviolet Light Twitter 0 comments Finding out which animals do or do not glow under ultraviolet light (UV) has apparently become a pastime for scientists. In early 2020, for example, a research team reported that platypuses glow like blacklight posters. Now, members from that same team say they can also confirm that springhares—large, tunneling rodents native to South Africa—also exhibit biofluorescence under UV light. And make for a funky piece of nightclub art when they do. Gizmodo reported on the discovery, which participant scientists outlined in a study in Scientific Reports. The team of scientists, led by biologists Erik Olson and Paula Spaeth Anich at Northland College in Wisconsin, say in their study that while scientists have observed other animals glow under UV light, this is the first example of an Old World placental mammal doing so. (Old World, in this context, encompasses Asia, Africa, and Europe.)