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FIRST PHOTOS: Fish With Transparent Head, "Barrel" Eyes
nationalgeographic ^ | February 23, 2009

Posted on 02/23/2009 6:52:47 PM PST by JoeProBono

With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes—topped by green, orblike structures—in a picture released today but taken in 2004.

The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.

The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939—but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: barreleye; fish; macropinna; rachelmaddow
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1 posted on 02/23/2009 6:52:47 PM PST by JoeProBono
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2 posted on 02/23/2009 6:54:10 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

God is so cool.


3 posted on 02/23/2009 6:54:51 PM PST by LikeLight (http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
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To: JoeProBono

Looks like Leon Panetta


4 posted on 02/23/2009 6:55:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: LikeLight

Global Warming!

We must ban C02!


5 posted on 02/23/2009 6:56:09 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield (Barack Obama - aka "President Milli Vanilli")
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To: JoeProBono

partly transparent is odder than entirely transparent


6 posted on 02/23/2009 6:57:27 PM PST by GeronL (Hey, won't you be my Face Book friend??)
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Sorry, couldn't help myself :)
7 posted on 02/23/2009 6:57:39 PM PST by FORTRUTHONLY (Easy as 3.14159265358979323846...)
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To: JoeProBono
Amazing pictures. Here's a picture of a mammal with no spine:


8 posted on 02/23/2009 6:57:47 PM PST by exist
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Hey, Obambi wasn’t lying about creating more ‘transparency’
after all!


9 posted on 02/23/2009 6:59:22 PM PST by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: JoeProBono

Cool..


10 posted on 02/23/2009 7:00:22 PM PST by mnehring
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To: JoeProBono

That is cool!


11 posted on 02/23/2009 7:00:37 PM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: exist
A spineless mammal is still better than a jellyfish.

Photobucket

12 posted on 02/23/2009 7:02:40 PM PST by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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13 posted on 02/23/2009 7:04:57 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Fish heads
fish heads
eat them up
yum.


14 posted on 02/23/2009 7:07:20 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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Ping...

This looks cool & strange!!
Surreal but real!!


15 posted on 02/23/2009 7:10:21 PM PST by Majie Purple ( Testing...1,2,3,testing...)
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16 posted on 02/23/2009 7:13:31 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Taking these photos really is “ shooting fish in a barrel”


17 posted on 02/23/2009 7:15:34 PM PST by Redcitizen (The Death Star is the ultimate in peacekeeping.)
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To: Redcitizen
Hah!


18 posted on 02/23/2009 7:17:37 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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He looks as if he hasn’t a care in the world.


19 posted on 02/23/2009 7:19:00 PM PST by rabidralph
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From back in the days why you could get screwed up and actually get a laugh out of MTV.


20 posted on 02/23/2009 7:19:39 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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