See-Thru Headed Fish
02/24/09 - Amazing
“Researchers say new footage of a weird fish with a transparent head has finally helped them to understand it. For 50 years boffins have been baffled as to how the strange looking fish coped with eyes giving it tunnel vision of whatever was directly above its head. But now they know the Barreleye Fish (or Macropinna microstoma, if you want to get all technical) can rotate its odd eyes within a transparent shield that covers the fish’s head. This, say the Californian scientists, means it can look up when finding food but forwards when feeding.” w/ photos + video
