So first off, I apologize for not posting anything new in awhile, it's been pretty hectic here and even now I'm supposed to be doing some other work--but procrastination gets the best of me every time. Hopefully over the summer this blog will be filled with even more interesting tid bits of trivia, even if the posts are relatively smaller than I usually do.Now, look at this fish in its eyes, that is if you can find them.
If you guessed that they were the two black dots above its mouth you are wrong. Those are in fact are the nostrils of the Barreleye Fish (belonging to the family Opisthoproctidae). The eyes on the other hand are those green bulbous things inside its skull. You see this particular fish, which lives at great depth, has a transparent fleshy dome that protects its inner tissue. It's been known since the late thirties but all the specimens that were collected were of poor quality, mangled from being captured (dead), and it wasn't until 2004 that scientists were able to fully understand the strange body that it had. The eyes are able to rotate within this glass-like shell and are well adapted to collecting what little sunlight makes it down into the deep abyss.
Again, sorry about cutting this one short (I have to get back to studying), but if you want to see some actual footage of the Barreleye fish, check out the link to National Geographic.
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