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Mantis shrimp's super colour vision debunked

One of the animal kingdom’s most complex eyes is really quite simple.

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Morrison, J. Mantis shrimp's super colour vision debunked. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.14578

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