How ultra-black fish disappear in the deepest seas

I'm sick of reading internet arguments about polymorphism and browser monoculture and borrow checking and static linking. Someone please tell me where I can go on the internet to read biologists arguing about their favorite animals.

“A feat of engineering allowed humans to best them all with synthetic materials, some of which reflect only 0.045 percent of incoming light. (“Black” paper, on the other hand, returns a whopping 10 percent of the light it meets.)

Now, it seems fish may come close to trouncing them all.

One species profiled in the paper, a bioluminescent anglerfish in the genus Oneirodes, reflects as little as 0.044 to 0.051 percent of the deep-sea light it encounters. The other 99.95 percent, Mr. Davis and his colleagues found, gets lost in a labyrinth of light-swallowing pigments until it effectively disappears.”

The use of ultrablack combined with bioluminescence is especially interesting — the fish puts a glowing lure to attract other fish, and has ultrablack skin to stay nearly invisible as the prey approaches.

Put it on a lab bench, next to a human hand and some printer paper. Or a banana. Anything the reader might recognize.

"While some ultra-black fish might appear brownish, it’s the product of camera overexposure and editing" Great. You know what does that mean? You need to find a better photo. That's what it means. What kind of lazy caption that is.

Found in the paper:

> We used a back-reflectance probe calibrated to a 2% diffuse reflectance standard to measure the reflectance at perpendicular incidence from the blackest undamaged patches of skin.