"A glowing wild eastern quoll’ Shot by Benjamin Alldridge, finalist in the Beaker Street Science Photography prize, one of several to be exhibited at Hobart’s Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery next month. “All of the light and colour in this image is the subject’s natural glow in response to invisible UV light, exploding from its natural sandy colouration. This is the first documentation of the species glowing in the wild and forms part of ongoing research into the impacts of light pollution.”

Disco Quoll

“Where their fur is normally fawn or black, under certain wavelengths of light, they exhibit a process referred to as biofluorescence – like nature’s version of a white shirt glowing at a disco.”

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