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Fish don't really see in the dark they have something called a lateral line that is a thin horizontal line of nerve receptors on each side of the fish that runs from head to tail. Using it's lateral line, a fish can sense even the smallest ...
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Since sunlight never reaches the deeper parts of the sea, these regions are always totally dark. Yet fish live here and swim about without bumping into each other. How is this so? Well, fish actually "see" without their eyes; t...
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As a rule, fish active in daylight rest at night as if they were asleep. Sometimes they lean against rocks, with their fins folded, or creep into holes and among vegetation. Fish scientists have learned that almost every kind of fish makes regular daily trips between shallow and deep water.
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Fish 'see' in the dark using electric sensors - SCIENTISTS HAVE discovered that some fish can use electric fields to d : Encyclopedia.com ... Find more facts and information related to the article "Fish 'see' in the dark using electric sensors"
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Fish See in Color ... Fish may choose red, through an evolutionary process, to elude predators. Red fish live in dark waters. Water absorbs light energy, the longest wavelengths go first: red, followed by orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
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Eyes That Can See in the Dark is a music journal, with an emphasis on jazz and ambient music, and forays into film, literature, and politics. Come and read it. ... Eyes That Can See in the Dark; a music journal...
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The vertebrate eye contains about 125 million "rod" cells which distinguish between light and dark and close to 6 million "cone" cells which distinguish colours. ... Now, researchers have discovered UV-absorbing cone cells in a vertebrate, the Japanese dace fish, that enables the fish to see wavelengths down to 360 nm.
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The plates, thought to be made of guanine crystals, are arranged so that the light entering the eye is reflected to a focused point on the retina, allowing the fish to see what lurks below it. ... The mirrors are thought to be more efficient in the dark because they reflect more of the available light into the retina,
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Related Content: DISCOVER: Splendor in the Dark, how fish glow; 80beats: Fish Living a 5-Mile Deep Trench Caught on Film ; 80beats: Curiosities of the Deep Revealed in First Census of Sea Life ... 2 Responses to “Built-In Mirrors Help Spookfish See in the Dark Ocean Depths”...
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