«Who knew that such a small critter would create such
an intense iridescence using extremely sophisticated mechanisms,» said study co-author Dimitri Deheyn, a postdoc at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, in the statement.
Bernhardt is much looser, her color more electric and
intense, bordering on tropical fish that pool in psychedelic lagoons, thinning out, then building up in gluts that turn into brambly palimpsests and clammy reservoirs of
iridescence.