Researchers solve mystery of deep-sea fish with tubular eyes and transparent head

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 is eating.

Deep-sea fish have adapted to their pitch-black environment in a variety of amazing ways. Several species of deep-water fishes in the family Opisthoproctidae are called "barreleyes" because their eyes are tubular in shape. Barreleyes typically live near the depth where sunlight from the surface fades to complete blackness. They use their ultra-sensitive tubular eyes to search for the faint silhouettes of prey overhead.

Although such tubular eyes are very good at collecting light, they have a very narrow field of view. Furthermore, until now, most marine biologists believed that barreleye's eyes were fixed in their heads, which would allow them to only look upward. This would make it impossible for the fishes to see what was directly in front of them, and very difficult for them to capture prey with their small, pointed mouths.

http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2009/barreleye/barreleye1-350.jpg

http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2009/barreleye/barreleye2-350.jpg

Read the rest here....
http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2009/barreleye/barreleye.html

Could you please once STFU and not comment with the atypical 'millions' or dragging religion into this????

We need a religion troll spray.

kiss my ass, I made a post on topic, so quit whining for once....are you gonna sit there and tell me you don't post these batman-esque threads not intending purely to stir the pot?

er no.. I would venture to guess he's not, actually. Its a pretty neat article.

kiss my ass, I made a post on topic, so quit whining for once....are you gonna sit there and tell me you don't post these batman-esque threads not intending purely to stir the pot?

Seriously dude, that was 100% you.

Here, I'll narrate your post, and highlight where you went from on-topic to religious babble.

Love the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I've been there several times.

Very good! You're on topic and doing well in this section :bigthumb:

Kudos to them for accurately reporting on this creature
Again, good showing. You've been able to maintain a constructive, on topic, post so far. :peace:

without the typical evolutionary, "millions of years" claptrap.

Caution ghost rider, you're losing sight of the target! :help:

Another testament of Design ignenuity.

Aaaaaannnnnnd. This belongs in the Religion section. :sad:



I added the smilies to give you a visual as well, often times people learn more quickly and efficiently if they can visualize the message as they hear/read it.

I hope you have found this informative.

The whole forum belongs in the religion section, and that all belongs in smacktalk.

PS: Neat fish

That’s because the only people who believe in young earth are religious. An earth billions of years is from a scientific standpoint.

And yes we are quite aware of your protests in regards to the SCIENTIFIC methods used to age the earth. Interesting threads like these only become religious when you bring your religiosity into them.

kiss my ass, I made a post on topic, so quit whining for once....are you gonna sit there and tell me you don't post these batman-esque threads not intending purely to stir the pot?


It was not on topic, and your religious comments have now stunk up a perfectly good thread.....why can every one else see this and not you??? Oh thats right, you're a moron.


And if this was a Batman thread it would be about sex or large ebony roosters. But only you correlate fish and sex, so that probably says something about the quality of prostitute poon that you have been getting.
Again, STFU.


Back on topic.....

As for the fish, its wild that it can see thru its head to look around. And the standing still is just plain weird...deep sea fish are fascinating.....the whole ocean is so vastly unexplored.

so i hurd u lyke tubulr eyez fish

so i hurd u lyke tubulr eyez fish

Regular Friday Night!

I want to eat at a fish fry.

I wonder what clear fish head sushi tastes like....

but if the millions of years stuff was in there, and it always is, if it's a yahoo or typical news website, no one would bat an eyelash...see how that works?

anyway, back on topic, superhack's comment was unwarranted
that is because we cant change what they write in their article. we aren't the ones putting it in there genius.