"If there wasn't overexposure and editing, the fish would be just as black as the background, and you wouldn't be able to see them." Sure thing. In that enviro

"If there wasn't overexposure and editing, the fish would be just as black as the background, and you wouldn't be able to see them." Sure thing. In that environment that is true. I bet they didn't measure their reflectivity in the deep, but on a lab bench though. "A dead fish is too different from a living one, so it's not worth picturing them." Maybe so, except that's not true. Here is a picture of a common fangtooth: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a6/cd/3f/a6cd3f0a9cc47b9794fa89633e4b119d.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a6/cd/3f/a6cd3f0a9cc47b9794fa... And here is an other one: https://insider.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fangtooth-e1406148315656.jpg https://insider.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fangtooth-... Any of these pictures would have been better to illustrate their colour.