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Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour
- k_sze 7y ago> While we already knew that brittlestars have photoreceptors all along their bodies, we didn’t know exactly how they worked until now. > Using a combination of microscopic observations and RNA sequencing, the researchers speculate that in light, the animal’s pigment-containing cells constrict the photoreceptors. Emphasis mine in the above quotes. "To know exactly" and "to speculate" are just completely incompatible. It bugs me how badly written popular science is.
- perl4ever 7y agoThis sort of thing seems normal for any sort of journalism these days (maybe it always was?)