AG Discover: Glowing Animals

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Find out how the natural world gets a glow up with this fascinating foray into the world of bioluminescence, phospheresence and fluoresence. Let Australian Geographic lead you into glow worm caves and even down to the ocean depths to explore animals that glow in the dark.

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Dr Timothy Jackson is an evolutionary toxinologist who has been publishing in the field since 2003. He received his PhD from the University of Queensland in 2016 for his thesis entitled A philosophical and empirical investigation of the toxicoferan reptile venom system. His work focuses on the evolution of reptile venom systems and their constituent toxins and has resulted in the publication of 28 peer-reviewed papers and contributions to 26 book chapters to-date.