{"id":190930,"date":"2024-06-09T20:28:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-find-16-ultra-black-fish-species-that-absorb-99-9-of-light-2"},"modified":"2024-06-09T20:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:28:22","slug":"scientists-find-16-ultra-black-fish-species-that-absorb-99-9-of-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/scientists-find-16-ultra-black-fish-species-that-absorb-99-9-of-light-2","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find 16 \u201cultra-black\u201d fish species that absorb 99.9% of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-16-ultra-black-fish-species-that-absorb-99-9-of-light4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A crested bigscale<\/em><em>Credit: Karen Osborn\/Smithsonian<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut what isn\u2019t absorbed side-scatters into the layer, and it\u2019s absorbed by the neighboring pigments that are all packed right up close to it,\u201d Osborn told Wired. \u201cAnd so what they\u2019ve done is create this super-efficient, very-little-material system where they can basically build a light trap with just the pigment particles and nothing else.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The result? Strange and terrifying deep-sea species, like the crested bigscale, fangtooth, and Pacific blackdragon, all of which appear in the deep sea as barely more than faint silhouettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crested bigscaleCredit: Karen Osborn\/Smithsonian \u201cBut what isn\u2019t absorbed side-scatters into the layer, and it\u2019s absorbed by the neighboring pigments that are all packed right up close to it,\u201d Osborn told Wired. \u201cAnd so what they\u2019ve done is create this super-efficient, very-little-material system where they can basically build a light trap with just the pigment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}