The transparent-headed fish:With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fishshows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green,orblike lenses--in a picture released today but taken in 2004.The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California'scentral coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute(MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its softtransparent dome intact.The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma)had been known since 1939--but only from mangled specimensdragged to the surface by nets.Here is the video:www.youtube.com/watch?f&v=VhSMeaQ23TA —

The transparent-headed fish:
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--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.
Here is the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?f&v=VhSMeaQ23TA —