Abyssal fish can see through its head

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Abyssal fish can see through its head

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Hi!!

The article is actually a few month old now...as it was originally published in the volume 4 of the 2008 edition of Copeia...but the news has created some sort of a buzz on the net...

So just wanted to share this with you as I think it hasn't been done yet...
The fish is really amazing...and this is no photoshoped or human creation...100% natural....nature really amaze me...

So if you want to read more about that uncredible fish...
take a look here:
http://blogs.discovery.com/news_animal/ ... -head.html

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The fish is really amazing...and this is no photoshoped or human creation...100% natural....nature really amaze me...
I had to do a double take when I first saw it on the cover...it is amazing

And then to find out the largest used in the article was only 116 mm SL, and they were caught from 600- 1000 m down, that would be a tough biotope to recreate(bare ,dark and pressured up)...but they did say one was kept in an aquarium for a few hours.
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Amazing indeed.Wonders of nature.
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Hey,

yup, truly amazing. Since I've first saw it I just cannot take it out of my head. Whatever I'm doing, I'm still impressed by this fish.
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do you think it's for real? I found a video of it at National Geographic.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... index.html

way beyond cool!

ETA sorry your orig link had a video down in the comments also :oops:
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It's cool and gives me the willies all at the same time!
Then again it was NG's TV special on deep water anglerfish that made me love fish to begin with so I'm weird anyway :lol:

Slightly OT but on the weird science vein, did you know that Zebra Danios can grow their heart muscles back?? Just found that out. Cool. There's so much out there for us to learn.
Just hope no one crosses that see-through fish with people :shock:
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Tubular eyes! Fish beat us inventing fiber optics!
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do you think it's for real?
Yes, it is completely real (the article is actually a paper in a scientific journal) and just off of your coast...you could just pop out there, can you hold your breath down to 600 m :)
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????????????????? I just CAN'T get my head round this bad-boy at all! :?
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Bizar kind of fish
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