{"id":863,"date":"2021-11-11T22:09:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2021-11-11T22:09:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T22:09:38","slug":"scientists-discover-ultra-black-deep-sea-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ULTRA-BLACK DEEP SEA FISH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The fish <\/strong>was found at 200 <\/strong>to 2,000 meters <\/strong>below the surface<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Karen Osborn\/Smithsonian<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The fish <\/strong>– called the ultra-black fish<\/strong>, which live anywhere between 200 <\/strong>to 2,000 meters below surface <\/strong>– are so dark that they often appear just as a silhouette, according to one of the authors, Alexander Davis<\/strong>, of the study, which was published in Current Biology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Karen Osborn\/Smithsonian<\/span><\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“They look almost like something photoshopped <\/strong>out of whatever you’re looking at,” Davis said. “Out of the water it’s a little bit different cause they’re so shiny, but you can still tell they’re just incredibly black<\/strong>.” He described them as a “matte black<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To qualify as ultra<\/strong>–black<\/strong>, a species <\/strong>must reflect less than 0.5% <\/strong>of the light that hits it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were able to capture the fish <\/strong>by dropping a large net down into the sea, anywhere between 200 <\/strong>to 2,000 meters <\/strong>below surface, and running <\/strong>it through <\/strong>the water<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s likely there are many more <\/strong>of these super black deep sea fish <\/strong>out there,” he said. “The odds that we’ve captured <\/strong>every single ultra<\/strong>–black fish <\/strong>seems really slim<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fish was found at 200 to 2,000 meters below the surface. The fish – called the ultra-black fish, which live anywhere between 200 to 2,000 meters below surface – are so dark that they often appear just as a silhouette, according to one of the authors, Alexander Davis, of the study, which was published… Continue reading SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ULTRA-BLACK DEEP SEA FISH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}