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Published online 16 May 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030512-14

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How to see shells on the sea floor

Southeast Asian water babies have supreme aquatic vision.

In the sea, most of us are half-blind - but the Moken are king. This Southeast Asian tribe of sea gypsies can see twice as clearly underwater as Europeans, researchers have found.

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