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ZZ9ZA t1_jd1epo3 wrote

Aren’t most deep sea creatures more or less “legally” blind anyway, as an extreme lack of light doesn’t really incentivize putting resources towards vision.

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Sarmelion t1_jd1ogzh wrote

No, they can still see usually but in narrower bands, blasting bright white light still blinds them so a lot of research folks switched to red light with special lenses, since most don't have photoreceptors for red light apparently

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