BARRELEYE FISH HAS TRANSPARENT HEAD

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Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured this image of a barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) in the deep waters just offshore of Central California... The barreleye has extremely light-sensitive, tubular eyes that can rotate inside of its transparent head. Capped by bright green lenses, the fish's eyes point upward when it looks for food overhead, and then they point forward when the fish is feeding to focus on its prey.

from the abc news over there

cannot come up with a suitable variant of O_O

transparent guy just thinking baout things

http://www.niftyfiftyscifi.com/BFPA/pa6.JPG

Q._.Q

the front-on shot makes it look like an old man in a nursing home...

I posted this on the weird animals thread this morning!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa whyyyyy why does it have a see-thru head WHYYYYY

why DON'T humans have c-thru heads is the question

AWESOME

I love deep sea shit.

srsly, this fish is great

It looks forlorn

Does it have a name yet? (Not a species name but something like Barney)

Barney Barreleye

Dumang Bodander

C-Thru

If you think its eyes are far out wait till ya check out the size of its

It must be fish with weird fucking eyes week:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2009/02/090224154912-large.jpg

Members of Histiophryne psychedelica, or H. psychedelica, don't so much swim as hop. Each time they strike the seafloor they use their fins to push off and they expel water from tiny gill openings on their sides to jettison themselves forward. With tails curled tightly to one side –which surely limits their ability to steer – they look like inflated rubber balls bouncing hither and thither.

While other frogfish and similar species are known to jettison themselves up off the bottom before they begin swimming, none have been observed hopping. It's just one of the behaviors of H. psychedelica never observed in any other fish, says Pietsch, UW professor of aquatic and fishery sciences and curator of fishes at the UW Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. He's the lead author of a paper about the new species that's now online at Copeia, the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. His work is funded by the National Science Foundation.

It was little more than a year ago that the fish with rare, forward-facing eyes like humans and a secretive nature was the subject of worldwide news coverage after having been observed in the busy harbor of Ambon Island, Indonesia. An adult fish was observed in January 2008 by Toby Fadirsyair, a guide, and Buck and Fitrie Randolph, two of the co-owners of Maluku Divers, which is based in Ambon. They and co-owners Andy and Kerry Shorten eventually found Pietsch to help them identify the fish. Since the first sighting divers have observed a number of adults and juveniles, now that they know what to look for.

Can't we use these against creationists?

"Look at these, now you either admit these are proof of a large amount of random variation or you admit you worship a colorblind junkie lunatic. What's it gonna be?"

in defense of the creationists, i don't think the brain from the planet arous is real

Herpetologists... ew

"4 Black Eggs Have Surfaced From the Dark Heart of the Ocean—With Alien Creatures Inside"

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a46638495/black-eggs-flatworms/