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Thursday, 9 May 2019

New type of highly sensitive vision discovered in deep-sea fish

The deep sea is home to fish species that can detect various wavelengths of light in near-total darkness. Unlike other vertebrates, they have several genes for the light-sensitive photopigment rhodopsin, which likely enables these fish to detect bioluminescent signals from light-emitting organs.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2HbKVIB

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