Deep-Sea Fish Larvae Rewrite the Rules of How Eyes Can Be Built

Deep-sea fish larvae rewrite the rules of how eyes can be built

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth's strangest creatures.

How can deep-sea fish build eyes?

A surprise in twilight waters: new visual cells change our picture of eyes Researchers studying larvae of deep sea fish have identified an entirely new kind of visual cell that challenges long held ideas about how vertebrate eyes are constructed. These tiny, twilight dwelling animals—sampled from…