But what’s _really_ on his mind?
Thursday, February 26th, 2009A little fishy in the depths of the Central Californian coast called the barreleye is getting attention for its SEE THROUGH HEAD.
The little guy hangs out in super deep water. The head’s lack of visibility was unknown to scientists until recently when Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have been following the fish with robots. Though the fish has been identified since 1939, it was assumed the head was not so bulbous when seen out of the water, where it would deflate and be gross from being dead and under less pressure. The eyes can move around within the head and see through the thin parts of the transparent skin that protects the super-light-collecting eye tubes from stinging tentacles of bad guys — the guys they are stealing food from. Wait a second…
Check out Strange fish has a see-through head msnbc
See-through head fish wtf_nature
Fish has sea-through eyes the sun (UK)