First Live Specimen of Fish With Transparent Head Discovered and Filmed!

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With a head like a fighter plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel like eyes topped by green, orblike lenses. The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off Californias 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. (Quoted from National Geographic) Further Reading: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish transparent head barreleye picture/index.html

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