Normally, these have a red sheen, warning off predators, but when the light shines on them perpendicularly, they flush green and blue, a "remarkable example of photonic engineering by a living organism".
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The effect is produced by many hexagonal cylinders within the spines, which "perform much more efficiently than man-made optical fibres".
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