# @discovery on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd1qLIEFzTr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71038602-discovery-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/67d1f54bd7.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28T16:53:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Discovery (@Discovery) — https://gondola.cc/Discovery

## Caption

📸 + 💭: earth2audge

“You can't sneak up on these clams. Every time I moved in, the mantle pulled back and the color drained out. So I hovered and waited.

Hundreds of pinhole eyes line the mantle edge, tuned to shadows and movement. A shape overhead reads as a predator.

The color comes from cells called iridocytes, stacked platelets that send useful wavelengths down to the symbiotic zooxanthellae and throw the rest back out. That reflected light is what I photographed. Every one is patterned differently. Under a strobe it goes electric.

Worth the wait.”

#MarineMonday #GiantClam #SodwanaBay

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marinemonday, sodwanabay, giantclam

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