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Published online 21 November 2007 | Nature 450, 472-474 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450472a
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Marine biology: Lights in the deep
Far below the surface of the ocean, beyond the reach of the Sun's rays, organisms still have eyes. Mark Schrope investigates seeing without sunlight.
It is a calm August day in the azure waters of the Bahamas, and Erika Raymond, a doctoral student in Oceanography at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, has been screening hours of video footage inside a shipboard laboratory. The footage comes from a camera system that was stationed on the sea floor some 600 metres down.
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