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Posted: 9/18/2009 6:57:50 PM EDT

Animal Oddities
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured this image of a barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) in the deep waters just offshore of Central California from a video taken by a remotely operated video at depths of 2,000 to 2,600 feet. Since it was discovered in 1939, the barreleye's vision has been a mystery, until scientists at MBARI solved it on Feb. 23, 2009. The barreleye has extremely light-sensitive, tubular eyes that can rotate inside of its transparent head. Capped by bright green lenses, the fish's eyes point upward when it looks for food overhead, and then they point forward when the fish is feeding to focus on its prey.
(Courtesy Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AmazingAnimals/popup?id=2205608&contentIndex=1&page=18&start=false

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:00:46 PM EDT

[#1]

Weird looking fish

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:01:26 PM EDT

[#2]

there is still SO much about the ocean that scientist haven't even discovered yet.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:01:36 PM EDT

[#3]

That's a pretty ghey fish, if you ask me.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:02:15 PM EDT

[#4]

Interesting.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:03:07 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
That's a pretty ghey fish, if you ask me.

... and, so it begins...

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:03:33 PM EDT

[#6]

Fire.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:04:46 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Fire.

+1. Weird sea thing normally don't bother me, but that thing is just weird.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:05:23 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
That's a pretty ghey fish, if you ask me.

What? You don't like fish sticks?

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:05:32 PM EDT

[#9]

Since it's impossible to kill it with fire if it's in the water, I vote that our new response to anything scary or strange in the water be "Kill it by dumping large amounts of industrial chemicals into the ocean" It's really the only thing that fits.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:05:33 PM EDT

[#10]

I'd love to see a hi-res closeup, expecially of the muscles along the ddorsal area behind the clear head.

I wonder how the clear connects to the muscle. I wonder what the clear part is made of.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:05:46 PM EDT

[#11]

I would eat it

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:08:06 PM EDT

[#12]

Wonder how that would taste in a Sauce Piquant?

You know us coonasses will eat anything.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:08:49 PM EDT

[#13]

he has a pretty snoody look on his face

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:09:23 PM EDT

[#14]

That is asking for a meme.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:10:07 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

That's a pretty ghey fish, if you ask me.

LOL, that was funny. I havnt laughed all night till now.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:11:17 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Wonder how that would taste in a Sauce Piquant?

You know us coonasses will eat anything.

WTF?!!! I figured you already had a time tested (6 generations or more) recipe for them.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:13:28 PM EDT

[#17]

Looks like some good eatin'.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:13:30 PM EDT

[#18]

there is much evil in the ocean

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:15:13 PM EDT

[#19]

Kanye?

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:15:33 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Wonder how that would taste in a Sauce Piquant?

You know us coonasses will eat anything.

It would be good, i consider Sauce Piquant a catchall.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:16:34 PM EDT

[#21]

Welcome to 8 months ago,

I got that bad boy into Natty Geo magazine a couple months back

when I forwarded the Mbari data & pix to a old colleague

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:17:18 PM EDT

[#22]

Black lagoon?!? oh wait..

nvm

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:20:02 PM EDT

[#23]

Quick! Change the PH level!

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:21:42 PM EDT

[#24]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:22:20 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Since it's impossible to kill it with fire if it's in the water, I vote that our new response to anything scary or strange in the water be "Kill it by dumping large amounts of industrial chemicals into the ocean" It's really the only thing that fits.

but thats how this fish came to be in the first place

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:24:15 PM EDT

[#26]

wtf that is so cool.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:27:18 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
That's a pretty ghey fish, if you ask me.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:30:32 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:

Since it's impossible to kill it with fire if it's in the water, I vote that our new response to anything scary or strange in the water be "Kill it by dumping large amounts of industrial chemicals into the ocean" It's really the only thing that fits.

Negatory on the no fire in the water.

Think 'magnesium'...

But why kill it? Harmless fishy, minding his own business, probably never seen himself in a mirror...

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:38:31 PM EDT

[#29]

It looks sad.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:39:49 PM EDT

[#30]

Kinda looks like

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:40:07 PM EDT

[#31]

thats a "FUCK MY LIFE" looking fish if I've ever seen one.

Posted: 9/18/2009 7:42:32 PM EDT

[#32]

i imagine the lights burnt that fish's eyeballs to a crisp...not used to much light down there.

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:10:43 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM9o4VnfHJU

Too cool. Thanks for posting that link.

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:45:55 PM EDT

[#34]

Negatory on the no fire in the water.

Think 'magnesium'...

But why kill it? Harmless fishy, minding his own business, probably never seen himself in a mirror...

I know you can get fire going in water... but how would you get it to 2600 feet down!?

Why kill it? The same reason humans kill anything... because it's different

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:54:19 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Negatory on the no fire in the water.

Think 'magnesium'...

But why kill it? Harmless fishy, minding his own business, probably never seen himself in a mirror...

I know you can get fire going in water... but how would you get it to 2600 feet down!?

Why kill it? The same reason humans kill anything... because it's different

Ever heard of welding under water?

Posted: 9/18/2009 9:13:32 PM EDT

[#36]

I would grow eyes out my asshole if I had to, to see dragon fish coming my way.

Posted: 9/18/2009 10:43:55 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
I'd love to see a hi-res closeup, expecially of the muscles along the ddorsal area behind the clear head.

I wonder how the clear connects to the muscle. I wonder what the clear part is made of.

I am thinking some sort of clear stuff.

Posted: 9/18/2009 10:54:06 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

I would grow eyes out my asshole if I had to, to see dragon fish coming my way.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v415/n6867/images/415020b-i1.0.jpg http://www.itsnature.org/Sea/images/article-images/black-dragonfish.jpg

Thank God for Russian ingenuity!

Posted: 9/18/2009 10:56:09 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:

I'd love to see a hi-res closeup, expecially of the muscles along the ddorsal area behind the clear head.

I wonder how the clear connects to the muscle. I wonder what the clear part is made of.

I am thinking some sort of clear stuff.

Plexi-glass?

Posted: 9/18/2009 10:57:14 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Since it's impossible to kill it with fire if it's in the water, I vote that our new response to anything scary or strange in the water be "Kill it by dumping large amounts of industrial chemicals into the ocean" It's really the only thing that fits.

Erm, you catch it, pull it out of the water and then light it on fire. Wtf is wrong with you?

Posted: 9/18/2009 11:01:06 PM EDT

[#41]

Posted: 9/18/2009 11:03:02 PM EDT

[#42]

Fuck Obama Fish

Posted: 9/18/2009 11:03:55 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
I would grow eyes out my asshole if I had to, to see dragon fish coming my way.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v415/n6867/images/415020b-i1.0.jpg http://www.itsnature.org/Sea/images/article-images/black-dragonfish.jpg

The ocean sucks

Posted: 9/18/2009 11:11:44 PM EDT

[#44]

it looks "intelligent" like it can think, kill it
destroy the species
for the children

Posted: 9/18/2009 11:28:06 PM EDT

[#45]

nuke it from underwater. only way to be sure.

Posted: 9/18/2009 11:37:58 PM EDT

[#46]

I bet you could get big bucks for it in Japan.

Posted: 9/18/2009 11:45:42 PM EDT

[#47]

Tag for dinner pic.

Posted: 9/19/2009 1:40:32 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:

I bet you could get big bucks for it in Japan.

And of you did Captain Bubba and the Sea Shepard pirates would be on your ass for it ...

Posted: 9/19/2009 2:04:19 AM EDT

[#49]

If its eyes are inside of a transparent head, then what is the point of those "eye" things on the front of its face?

They look like lids with no balls inside. What is the point of having eyes that are not used? Evolution generally does not care about cosmetic needs.

Do they open up when the eyeballs rotate forward? If so, why bother. If you have a transparent head to see up, why bother with eye holes to see forward? A holdover from the earlier form I guess.

Posted: 9/19/2009 2:05:14 AM EDT

[#50]

I personally welcome our new swivel eyed, clear headed fish overlords. But in the event of a rebellion, what round would be appropriate? Birdshot?

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