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    Oct232012

    Silvery Fish Elude Predators With Light-Bending

    It's why you wear polarized glasses.

    Silvery fish like sardines and Atlantic herring are masters of camouflage. A new study explains how the fish use their silvery skin to stay invisible to predators from nearly every angle.

    “What these fish do is get around a fundamental law of reflection,” said Nicholas Roberts, a biologist at the University of Bristol and one of the study’s authors.

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