Sunday, June 29, 2014
This one is totally new to me
I never heard of a clam with flashing (reflector) lights until I read this article (with a video).
How the flashy disco clam lights up the sea
What's also interesting is that the lights aren't bioluminescence, they are simple light reflections off of silica microspheres.
I looked, but I couldn't find a microphotograph of the microspheres, which the researchers are calling silica nanobeads.
But I'll keep trying.
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