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By Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News An ocean mystery - how the blackest fish in the deep sea are so extremely black - has been solved in a study that began with a very bad photograph. "I couldn't get a good shot - just fish silhouettes," said Dr Karen Osborn from the Smithsonian Institution.

Adopted daughter of Walt and Lillian Disney who stayed away from the entertainment industry for the most part, only acting in a minor role in the film Johnny Tremain. She was adopted when she was two weeks old. She grew up with an adopted older sister named Diane.

For many years, there was one kind of swim cap. It was ultratight, made of latex or silicone and it was one size fits all. But those swim caps left out large groups of swimmers, adding to structural inequities that often keep people of color out of the pool.

A North American river otters home range can be as large as 30 square miles (78 square kilometers), but a typical territory is 3 to 15 square miles (4.8 to 24 square kilometers). That home range shrinks drastically during breeding and rearing season.

In Andre Wagners single image of a Black child gripping a small, wrinkled American flag in one hand while the other rests pensively on her chin, Wagner tells the complicated story of America. That Star-Spangled Banner is crumpled, as if it has been rolled up in a pocket, tucked away, its usefulness uncertain but nonetheless