Mantis Shrimp Vision: 16 Photoreceptors and the Strangest Eye in the Ocean
Mantis shrimp have sixteen photoreceptor types and see circularly polarized light — but how they actually process color upends what we thought we knew.
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Mantis shrimp have sixteen photoreceptor types and see circularly polarized light — but how they actually process color upends what we thought we knew.
Octopuses change color, pattern, and texture in under a second — yet they are colorblind. How they pull off nature's strangest disappearing act.