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Skin preparation from a lookdown fish seen under cross polarization microscopy shows birefringence in the skin. National Science Foundation-funded researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are studying how fish use polarized light to camouflage themselves found that some fish use microscopic structures, called platelets, in their skin cells to reflect polarized light, enabling them to seemingly disappear from their predators.
Image credit: Shulei Zhao
