Forget the white whale—some of the most rarely seen albinos on the planet are deep-water sharks that spend most of their lives in a world without light. Via InsideScience.
Chemicals commonly found in sunscreen cause permanent DNA damage to coral.Forget the white whale -- some of the most rarely seen albinos on the planet are deep-water sharks that spend most of their lives in a world without light.
"I saw this little lantern shark sitting there and was like, 'What the hell is that?" she said."It had no pigmentation whatsoever." "Because each lantern shark species has unique photophore patterns it's suspected that they use bioluminescence to communicate with each other," she said. "In a lot of cases, [albinos] generally don't make it very large because they get eaten," Ebert said."They're vulnerable to predators."along general patterns. Many creatures higher in the water column are darker on top so that from above they appear to blend in with deep water, and from below they blend in with the bright surface, said Jennifer Bigman, a biology doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Albinism could affect this.
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