Dragonfish have eyes for love (IMAGE)

Boston College

Dragonfish have eyes for love

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Malacosteus niger is one of two species of male dragonfish to reveal they grow larger eyes in order to seek out females in the deep ocean, a sexual dimorphism that makes the dragonfish an anomaly in vertebrate evolution, Boston College researchers report in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

 

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Christopher Kenaley

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