Researchers in Japan led by the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe and Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, have discovered that whale shark vision has uniquely temperature-dependent adaptations unseen in any other lifeform. They have detailed the findings in a study titled “Whale shark rhodopsin adapted to deep-sea lifestyle by a substitution associated with human disease,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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