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lightless

[lahyt-lis] / ˈlaɪt lɪs /








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While you can’t help but appreciate the cherry red of the deep-sea atolla jellyfish, you will also learn why its unusual pigment persists in the lightless depths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Much of the deep ocean is vacant, with extremely cold, lightless regions making it difficult for life as we know it to survive.

From Salon ● May 21, 2025

Today, there are more than 300 species of anglerfish, which makes them the most varied family of vertebrates in the ocean’s lightless zone.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

“At this point we have a lightless lighthouse until the Coast Guard can effect the repairs.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

They were standing in a windowless, lightless, cinder- block corridor that had doors at either end: this was the makeshift air lock, the gray zone.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston


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