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Fish with a previously unknown type of eye


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The University of Tubingen's Institute of Anatomy has discovered a fish with a previously unknown type of eye. The aptly-named glasshead barreleye lives at depths of 800 to 1000 meters. It has a cylindrical eye pointing upwards to see prey, predators or potential mates silhouetted against the gloomy light above. But the eye also has a mirror-like second retina which can detect bioluminescent flashes created by deep-sea denizens to the sides and below..

http://phys.org/news...nknown-eye.html

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Not a very attractive fish.

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When he is in school, do they call him 8 eyes?

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Not a very attractive fish.

Hey - A fish gotta eat!

Imagine one of those stuffed and mounted hanging on your wall.

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there should be a lot more odd looking sea creatures appearing soon no doubts ... thanks to the spillage from the fukishima nuclear disaster

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A fish with glasses?

Get it? Four eyes? Ahh? Ahhhh?

Nevermind.

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Hey - A fish gotta eat!

Imagine one of those stuffed and mounted hanging on your wall.

No way I would mount anything and hang it on my wall! Ew!

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