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With enormous upward-looking eyes that fill half its otherwise transparent body, the deep-living shrimplike amphipod Cystisoma is well-suited to its dim world. It needs such large eyes to detect the little light available in its midwater environment (800 meters), and red eyes, at that depth, look black—and invisible. (Photo by Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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Posted: May 16, 2013
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