AK-Dave
Jan 13th, 2005, 06:32pm
From LiveScience.com:
Biologists have discovered how this Hawaiian bobtail squid glows from its belly. Surprisingly, the two-inch-long animal acquires this ability by sequestering bacteria that produce the toxic molecule responsible for whooping cough and gonorrhea in humans.
The rest of the article is here (http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_050113.html) . Not many details, but interesting anyway. Has a decent picture of the squid.
-David
Biologists have discovered how this Hawaiian bobtail squid glows from its belly. Surprisingly, the two-inch-long animal acquires this ability by sequestering bacteria that produce the toxic molecule responsible for whooping cough and gonorrhea in humans.
The rest of the article is here (http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_050113.html) . Not many details, but interesting anyway. Has a decent picture of the squid.
-David