David WestwoodMar 23
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Gauguin? Matisse? Miró? Well, actually, it’s… sea slug! 🤗 A team at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces discovered that #nudibranchs - a type of marine slug often called 'the #butterflies of the #sea' - produce their brilliant hues not with pigment chemistry as previously thought, but through structural colouration, arranged in pixel-like patterns.🦋🐚🎨.🌊 More: https://www.mpg.de/26287823/impressionist-sea-slugs [Credit: Samuel Humphrey/MPI of Colloids and Interfaces]
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Show threadLa KekaMar 20
Nature is amazing, and these findings are, too. They are fascinating, and I adore the way the results are presented. ... HOWEVER, ... I always wonder how many individuals -in this case, nudibranches- were killed for this. Biology still is a very Cartesian matter, and that highly erroneous worldview must be overcome. - Or was this found out by examining nudibranches who had died naturally, of age?