Examples
“But I do have one amusing story: I read a report about a type of fish called a spookfish, which has these amazing eyes, where every single eye has two bits: one that looks upwards, and has a sort of typical vertical lens configuration, and one that points downwards, which uses a mirror to focus objects much like a lens.”
“The spookfish however, manages to focus light in the lower eye without using a lens.”
“In the spookfish, the mirror sits in front of the retina and serves to focus light, providing an image that's much brighter than a lens could produce.”
“The article, titled "A Novel Vertebrate Eye Using Both Refractive and Reflective Optics," describes the unusual eyes of the spookfish, Dolichopteryx longipes.”
“Jan 07, 2009 | not rated yet | no comments yet A remarkable new discovery shows the four-eyed spookfish to be the first vertebrate ever found to use mirrors, rather than lenses, to focus light in its eyes.”
“In the few other species of deep-sea fish that possess split eyes, the upper eye has a lens, like in the spookfish, for focusing light.”
“The spookfish has a pair of mirrors (black) to focus light from below into its eyes”
“The diverticular eyes image these flashes, warning the spookfish of other animals that are active, and otherwise unseen, below its vulnerable belly.”
“The spookfish needs one half to point upwards, to capture faint glimmers of light from the sea surface 1,000m above.”
“The brownsnout spookfish has been known for 120 years, but no live specimen had ever been captured.”
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Ponderable Zoological Names
Wordplay and humor abound in the names and naming of organisms. I believe this sort of play is a distinctly human quality.
Herein I list playful names of organisms that inspire delight...Bambiraptor, Godzillius, Dalailama, Ia io, Cartwrightia cart..., Mops mops, Dives dives dives, Lactarius nonfungus, Lactarius nonpiscis, Achelousaurus hor..., Vini vidivici, Panama canalia and 999 more...
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PECH - marine species
Alaska plaice, African cuttlefish, Alaska pollock, Alaska pollack, walleye pollock, alewife, gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, allis shad, American angler, goosefish and 994 more...
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Underwaterritory
When you're underwater, what do you see or experience? Let's dive...
(Here's a cute little related list called Fishful Thinking...)underwater, curglaff, submarine, underwater habitat, diving bell, paravane, bottom trawling, sediment traps, torpedo, mines, shipwreck, sonar and 214 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Elizabeth's Words
milquetoast, systempunkt, brainmite, plimpy, anachronaut, ephemera, bioephemera, blimp, zeppelin, dirigible, snafu, zeitgeist and 73 more...
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milquetoast, systempunkt, brainmite, brainmeat, plimpy, anachronaut, ephemera, bioephemera, blimp, zeppelin, dirigible, snafu and 65 more...
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VanishedOne's Words
facipulator, fetiphobia, gules, boustrophedon, reverse boustroph..., unreal, ensiform, xiphoid, romhack, heritage, floccinaucinihili..., johnian and 1004 more...
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vanishedone Science Daily: 'Although the spookfish was first discovered 120 years ago, no one had discovered its reflective eyes until now because a live animal had never been caught.' Jan 7, 2009