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Diagram on left shows how the ocean is divided into different depth categories. Diagram on the right shows how deep the different colors of light penetrate into the ocean. You can see that red light doesn’t reach down very far, this is why many deep-sea animals are red, so they are camouflaged. Next »

(TOP) The black finch, one of Darwin’s 13 types of finches found in the Galápagos.

(BOTTOM) A gary finch. (Photos by J. Pistiner and A. Newton, 1999).

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