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allcreatures: mabelmoments: The Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, has a clever way of duping predators during its nightly activities. Scientists have discovered that the squid uses a symbiotic luminescent bacteria to light up its underside, so that upwards-looking predators don’t see a dark, edible form silhouetted against a moonlit or starlit sky. Instead, hungry sharks or other fish see only sky Photograph: Mattias Ormestad/kahikai.org (via guardian uk)

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The Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, has a clever way of duping predators during its nightly activities. Scientists have discovered that the squid uses a symbiotic luminescent bacteria to light up its underside, so that upwards-looking predators don’t see a dark, edible form silhouetted against a moonlit or starlit sky. Instead, hungry sharks or other fish see only sky Photograph: Mattias Ormestad/kahikai.org (via guardian uk)

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    It’s sooo cool!
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    It’s my science fair bacteria! TOO BAD IT DIDN’T GLOW FOR ME >:(
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