By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - For more than a century, biology textbooks have stated that vision among vertebrates - people included - is built from two clearly defined cell types: ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

A team of scientists has revealed a previously unknown type of visual cell in deep-sea fish larvae, an unexpected finding that reshapes more than 150 years of scientific thinking about vertebrate ...

Deep-sea fish larvae reveal hybrid photoreceptors that blend rods and cones, challenging traditional vision models and ...

New research uncovers a hybrid visual cell in deep-sea fish, challenging the traditional rod-cone dichotomy in vertebrates. These cells, discovered in larvae of certain Red Sea fish, mix the ...

Some deep-sea fish may be able to see light in a different way from most other vertebrates, according to a new study. The ...

"Our results challenge the longstanding idea that rods and cones are two fixed, clearly separated cell types. Instead, we ...

A fish-hunting cone snail can drop the blood sugar of its prey so precipitously that it quickly becomes paralyzed and defenseless. This phenomenon has inspired scientists to develop insulins that ...