What do you thnk about the Strange barreleye fish called Macropinna Microstoma whos head is see-through?”
Personally, I like the fish head. It’s cute (beautiful to see at aquariums) and not typical of a fish. I just wonder how they are first made. If it were the product of crossbreeding or what. But I don’t know any other creature that has transparent head. Strange! Read this article here: “Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. Ever since the “barreleye” fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that its tubular eyes are very good at collecting light. However, the eyes were believed to be fixed in place and seemed to provide only a “tunnel-vision” view of whatever was directly above the fish’s head. A new paper by Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler shows that these unusual eyes can rotate within a transparent shield that covers the fish’s head. This allows the barreleye to peer up at potential prey or focus forward to see what it
