Why Are Deep Sea Fish Transparent

Why deep-sea creatures are transparent?

Transparency is a fairly common trait in marine organisms that live in the open ocean. In the open ocean, there are not many structures to hide behind so many animals that live there use transparency as a type of camouflage to hide from predators.

Why are some fishes transparent?

Polarized light is common underwater. (See photos: “Masters of Undersea Camouflage.”) The team also found tiny structures in some fish skin, called platelets, bend polarized light to make the fish almost invisible.

Sarah Jenkins

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