It almost seems Photoshopped. Amazing, regardless.
---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] See-Through Fish Caught In Photos Date : Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:45:06 -0800 From : "Tracey de Morsella" <tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com> To : "' Lockhart, Daryle '" <dar...@darylelockhart.com>, <afrikanm...@hotmail.com>, "'Albert Fields'" <cbilmarket...@yahoo.com>, <bettil...@msn.com>, "CINQUE " <cinque3...@verizon.net>, "'Cleo'" <cleo.wad...@aliefisd.net>, <dorothyh...@sbcglobal.net>, <duva...@hotmail.com>, <fis...@bellsouth.net>, "'GTW'" <gwashin...@aol.com>, "'Jeffrey Ballou'" <jeffreypbal...@gmail.com>, "'Kai Pettaway'" <killa...@gmail.com>, <kalpub...@aol.com>, <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>, "'Kera'" <imke...@gmail.com>, <kimbe...@luftworld.com>, "'Leroy Hughes'" <seriousnup...@yahoo.com>, "'Leslie'" <ilovesgrho1...@yahoo.com>, "'Logic'" <logic1...@aol.com>, "'Martin Baxter'" <truthseeker...@icqmail.com>, "'Marvalous'" <mmb1...@gmail.com>, "'Michael Gordon'" <gord...@indiana.edu>, <michael.v.w.gor...@gmail.com>, "'ravenadal'" <ravena...@yahoo.com>, <rs...@yahoo.com>, "'Seku Brathwaite'" <everything...@nyc.rr.com>, "'Valery Jean'" <valeryjea...@yahoo.com>, "'Wendell Theophilus Smith'" <wendellsmit...@gmai! l.com>, "'Whitney J Evans'" <sonofafieldne...@sbcglobal.net>, <williamsf...@speakeasy.net>, "'Zanfordino Anthony'" <beta...@yahoo.com> Every now and then, nature serves up a weird animal that you can't not stare at. Well, here's one for you -- the barreleye fish, with its funky transparent face: Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. Ever since the "barreleye" fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that it's tubular eyes are very good at collecting light. However, the eyes were believed to be fixed in place and seemed to provide only a "tunnel-vision" view of whatever was directly above the fish's head. A new paper by Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler shows that these unusual eyes can rotate within a transparent shield that covers the fish's head. This allows the barreleye to peer up at potential prey or focus forward to see what it is eating. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
