Barreleye, Fish Terrible With Invisible Head

Fish Barreleye

CALIFORNIA - Do you know, there is a strange fish that can be rotated eyes look towards the back?

Yes, because it turns her head a transparent aka invisibility!

Name the fish was barreleye (Macropinna microstoma), unique fish found in 1939.

Fish with a strange face and content reflected head out live in coastal California discovered accidentally by researchers from MBARI with sophisticated cameras they have.

Barreleye fish living in the deepest depths of the ocean where sunlight can not penetrate it.

So the fish is looking at using an ultra sensitive eyes.

Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to observe fish is to use a number of videos with Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) in Central California, a depth of 600-800 meters below sea level.

ROV cameras showed these fish depend motionless in the water.

His eyes were on the head of a transparent, fluid-filled.

Robison and Reisenbichler've also brought the fish to the surface am alive-alive.

In the aquarium fish eye look that can rotate horizontally and vertically.

Barreleye fish just a few inches in length, usually prey on small fish and jellyfish. His eyes are green, can filter out sunlight coming directly from the sea surface.

as quoted from various sources

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