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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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02/23/2009 6:54:10 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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02/23/2009 6:54:51 PM PST
by
LikeLight
(http://www.believersguidetolegalissues.com)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/23/2009 6:55:40 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: LikeLight
Global Warming!
We must ban C02!
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02/23/2009 6:56:09 PM PST
by
Rodney Dangerfield
(Barack Obama - aka "President Milli Vanilli")
To: JoeProBono
partly transparent is odder than entirely transparent
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02/23/2009 6:57:27 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Hey, won't you be my Face Book friend??)
To: JoeProBono
Sorry, couldn't help myself :)
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posted on
02/23/2009 6:57:39 PM PST
by
FORTRUTHONLY
(Easy as 3.14159265358979323846...)
To: JoeProBono
Amazing pictures. Here's a picture of a mammal with no spine:
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posted on
02/23/2009 6:57:47 PM PST
by
exist
To: JoeProBono
Hey, Obambi wasn’t lying about creating more ‘transparency’
after all!
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02/23/2009 6:59:22 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: JoeProBono
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02/23/2009 7:00:22 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: JoeProBono
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02/23/2009 7:00:37 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
To: exist
A spineless mammal is still better than a jellyfish.
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posted on
02/23/2009 7:02:40 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: rfp1234
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02/23/2009 7:04:57 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Fish heads
fish heads
eat them up
yum.
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posted on
02/23/2009 7:07:20 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: silent_jonny
Ping...
This looks cool & strange!!
Surreal but real!!
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02/23/2009 7:10:21 PM PST
by
Majie Purple
( Testing...1,2,3,testing...)
To: cripplecreek
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02/23/2009 7:13:31 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Taking these photos really is “ shooting fish in a barrel”
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posted on
02/23/2009 7:15:34 PM PST
by
Redcitizen
(The Death Star is the ultimate in peacekeeping.)
To: Redcitizen
Hah!
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02/23/2009 7:17:37 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
He looks as if he hasn’t a care in the world.
To: JoeProBono
From back in the days why you could get screwed up and actually get a laugh out of MTV.
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posted on
02/23/2009 7:19:39 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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