Surprise: How a Type of Deep-sea Fish Evolved Optimized Vision (1 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Surprise: How a Type of Deep-sea Fish Evolved Optimized Vision (1 of 5)

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Close-up of the head of the pearlside Maurolicus mucronatus. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 08 Nov. 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by F. de Busserolles at University of Queensland in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Pushing the limits of photoreception in twilight conditions: The rod-like cone retina of the deep-sea pearlsides."

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[Credit: Dr. Wen-Sung Chung (The University of Queensland)]

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