Mismatched Eyes Help Squid Survive the Ocean’s Twilight Zone

"They just look amazing and crazy and you can't look at one and not wonder what's going on with it."
"The sunlight that comes down in the deep sea is very dim.
Having a really enormous, big sensitive eye looking up to catch that light is a really
good strategy.
But then if you are giving up on sunlight all together and you are looking down having
a smaller eye with a bigger field of view is actually better for scanning a lot of water
to see if there is any bioluminescent flashes."

Mismatched Eyes Help Squid Survive the Ocean’s Twilight Zone

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