Lookdown Fish (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Lookdown Fish

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Researchers found that lookdown fish camouflage themselves through a complex manipulation of polarized light after it strikes the fish skin. This kind of camouflage outperforms by up to 80 percent the "mirror" strategy that was previously thought to be state-of-the-art in fish camouflage.

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By Jeff Kubina. Creative Commons. Some rights reserved.

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