Researchers from the University of Tübingen in Germany have discovered a glowing, fluorescent red fish. Generally, red fish are hard to find in the sea, because red light from the sun is absorbed by the water's surface.
However, researchers now have noted "that red fluorescence is widespread among marine fish." The fish was discovered quite by accident by German scientist Nico Michiels. He was diving in Mangrove Bay, which is in the Red Sea.
Michiels wore red light-seeing goggles on the dive. He told press: "We are convinced that we are the first ones to discover it [red fluorescence in fish] in the field and to recognize it as such an important phenomenon in reef fish."
