• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    I wonder if that afforded some level of protection to the surface dwellers’ receptors when in direct contact with high levels of sunlight.

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      2 hours ago

      As usual with biologists, if they do not understand what it does they claim it’s a useless byproduct of evolution. A few years later they discover there is actual purpose to it, and it is actually pretty nifty. Rinse and repeat.