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These “Ants” Use Ultrablack to Warn Predators — and Stay Cool
From the birds-of-paradise with their specialized feather structures that create a deep, matte black ... white areas. Researchers studying the cuticle of Traumatomutilla bifurca, a species of ...
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Velvet Ants' Rare Ultrablack Markings Are So Dark They Absorb Nearly All Visible Light
The species in question is Traumatomutilla bifurca, a type of velvet ant – which is, somewhat confusingly, actually a species of wasp. Some of these wasps don't have any wings, but they do have ...