Barreleye: Fish With Transparent Head

[hodgey.son]

G'day fellow Raiders,

I was trawling through news online today, and came across this interesting article:

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 (23/02/2009) but taken in 2004.

There is short written piece with links to further information, plus a short video of footage of the elusive Barreleye. Check it out!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...releye-picture/

Cheers,

Hodgey.son

[james7]

That is one weird fish!!!!

The video is great. It still looks too "unreal" to be "real"

Amazing!

Thanks Hodgey.son (and I wont hold you being Hodgey's son against you )

Cheers

Peter

[Mik]

Whoa!

How amazing is the ocean. Very cool Hodgey.son.

[jewgaffer]

Whoa!

How amazing is the ocean. Very cool Hodgey.son.

Very interesting post Hodgey jnr! ! The transparent head on that fish looks almost human and like a breeding experiment from people from out of space. It would be good if they can be trained to be a hardbody that seeks out and head butts the biggest flathead for your Dad

Cheers

jewgaffer

[Hodgey]

What an amazing fish! Interesting post mate

See you at Easter time!

[BalmainBob]

And they say that there is no such thing as Aliens

[victorski]

wow, that fish is amazing!!! has anyone watched the shows on national geographic when they went down to the deepest parts of the ocean and discovered all these crazy looking fish and crabs!! jeeezus its like another planet down there!