The Closest Evolution Has Gotten to Alien Animals

What the film says

1. Other midband rows in the mantis shrimp eye detect linearly and circularly polarized light.

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2. Giant tube worms were first found in 1977 at hydrothermal vents on the Galápagos Rift.

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3. Adult giant tube worms have no mouth or gut and rely on symbiotic bacteria for nutrition.

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4. Siphonophores blur the line between an individual and a colony; they are made of specialized zooids.

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5. Two injured Mnemiopsis leidyi comb jellies can fuse into a single entity that shares physiological functions.

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6. The mantis shrimp eye has a midband whose colour rows hold 12 types of photoreceptor, covering deep ultraviolet to far red.

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