The sea creature 'escapes hidden' is like a sapphire stone

Last year, explorers on a South African coast discovered a sea creature capable of blinking invisible in an instant, known as "the sapphire of the sea".

Explore the 'hidden escape' marine creature like sapphire stone

The explorers discovered a beautiful and unique marine species on the coast of Durban, South Africa. This sparkling-looking animal belongs to Sapphirina's copepod. Their skin may flicker in color , from blue to invisible in a short time, looking like rare sapphire stones.

Sea creatures transforms flashing like Sapphire stones

This strange creature has been named by Deep Sea News as the " sapphire of the sea" . Normally, swordfish species are often overlooked because they are quite small and serve as a source of food for the ocean.

However, this special crustacean possesses a glassy and transparent shell like glass , thanks to its structure consisting of a hexagonal microscope, which helps them reflect certain wavelengths of light. . They constantly blinked from the emerald green to the invisible, making viewers feel like they disappeared in the blink of an eye. According to the survey team, off the coast in South Africa, they also found them in Califorina and Rhode Island (USA).

Strange marine life has the ability to turn invisible in an instant

The crystal layers of ordinary jade are separated by a distance of about 4 / 10,000 millimeters, similar to a wavelength of blue light. Therefore, when the blue light shines to the rock and reflects back, it will retain the quality of the color, leading to the color that the observer will be blue.

In other colors, because of the slight difference in the wavelength of light with the distance of the crystal layer, it is almost impossible to see the true color. This creature has a completely similar structure. Therefore, when outside the environment, subject to many different types of light, this creature is beautiful green at the time, almost disappeared completely because of colorlessness in a heartbeat.

Interestingly, only males are able to glow like that, and females are not. In return, females have larger eyes than males. Explaining this characteristic, the researchers believe that males want to compete to attract females to try to shine (similar to the characteristics of the public), while females have larger eyes for ease. easily recognize blue light spots in the open sea.