"This fish might look made for science—or just plain made-up—but it's 100-percent real. First described in 1939, this "barreleye" has been somewhat of a mystery to science. But researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute were recently able to catch one of the deep-sea creatures and study it in a shipboard aquarium. They've learned that the fish can actually rotate its eyes upward to peer through its transparent, liquid-filled head. It's believed that the green color of the eyes (seen here looking sky-ward) might help to filter out sunlight so the fish can better spot its prey—glowing jellyfish—from its stomping grounds 2,000-2,600 feet (600-800 meters) below the surface."
Article by Katherine Harmon, 26 Feb 2009 at Scientific American.
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Hi fish with transparent head and rotating eyes! Nice to meet you! This is such an interesting finding. We humans have so much more we don't know.
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interesting that u posted this interesting finding. haha.. thanks for sharing. ^.^
Welcome!
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