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Incredibly, there wasn’t one common ancestor among the 16 species. They all evolved it independently and passed it along to their evolutionary descendants. Each has slightly different ways of absorbing light; their melanosomes are arranged differently in the skin 6/ https://t.co/EjQVVDEcUN — PolitiTweet.org

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Tons of melanin alone, though, couldn’t make these fish rival the darkness of Vantablack. They’ve built what is essentially a light trap. Any direct light that isn’t instantly absorbed by the melanosomes side-scatters onto neighboring pigments, which absorb the rest 5/ https://t.co/1Nw87XKZGC — PolitiTweet.org

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And get this: Some species have ultra-black gut linings, likely to keep them from glowing like lanterns when they eat bioluminescent prey. Evolutionary overkill? Not in the deep ocean, where one wrong move could mean death or starvation 7/ https://t.co/jJ9UIlk9vo — PolitiTweet.org

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