The phenomenon of fluorescence in marine animals has long received little attention. With the first observation of luminous land creatures, however, it has become a trend topic. Zoologists are still puzzled as to what the fluorescence is good for.
Sometimes it takes a little longer for a scientific topic to take off. That was the case with fluorescence. Scientists discovered early on that sea creatures fluoresce. During an excursion to the rocky coast of the southern English county of Devon in 1927, the naturalist Charles ES Phillips noticed small sea anemones in a tidal pool, which were a striking green glow. Phillips took some of them with him…
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