Coolest Marine Animal EVER
Holy crap! Check this guy out: http://www.mbari.org/news/news_releases/2009/barreleye/barreleye.html
The barreleye fish lives in the mid-pelagic region and has a transparent head shield that houses a roving eye that moves in the fluid filled cavity!!! I am continuously amazed by the adaptations that have evolved and we humans (a.k.a. evolutionary-newborns) had no idea they existed! We think we're so cool for building something like the Johnson Sea-Link Submersible only to discover that nature has been hiding this design for unknown-thousands of years.
This is why I do what I do....
The barreleye fish lives in the mid-pelagic region and has a transparent head shield that houses a roving eye that moves in the fluid filled cavity!!! I am continuously amazed by the adaptations that have evolved and we humans (a.k.a. evolutionary-newborns) had no idea they existed! We think we're so cool for building something like the Johnson Sea-Link Submersible only to discover that nature has been hiding this design for unknown-thousands of years.
This is why I do what I do....
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Comment by Biz on March 4, 2009 at 8:06pm - WOW, that is amazing! I am so intrigued! I just got to watch the video but can't wait to research further! Thanks for the post!
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Comment by Korby Trautman on March 1, 2009 at 10:42pm - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpback_anglerfish
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Comment by Korby Trautman on March 1, 2009 at 10:42pm
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this fish is crazy!!! it reminds of a fish that they talked about at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, the Humpback Anglerfish, just because of it's strange appearance. check it out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpback_anglerfish heres the most interesting part i think, its the last paragraph...
"Males are free swimming when young but before they mature these small fishes (about a tenth the size of the female) attach themselves permanently to the hind body of the female and become parasitic. Their blood supply becomes continuous with that of the female and most of the internal organs degenerate: they become simply appendages to supply sperm when required"
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Comment by matt westfall on February 28, 2009 at 10:15am - dude, i just went to the megavideo homepage and this fish interview was #3 of popular videos. on the homepage. cool!
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Comment by Terra Younger on February 26, 2009 at 2:50pm - This fish is INSANE! But it's beautiful in a way. Sneaky little things too, taking food from the others and escaping. Coolest marine animal is a true statement I'd say!
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Comment by Sean Nash on February 26, 2009 at 1:02pm - PS- be certain to check out the news release link from MBARI in Nicole's original post above...
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Comment by Sean Nash on February 26, 2009 at 1:00pm
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Nicole... as always, thanks a ton for adding this post. I can't think of a more exciting, more freaky thing alive. There is just something about this one. Am I right? Wow.
After you sent the link to me from MBARI, I received three other e-mails from other former marine bio students who also thought it was significantly amazing for forwarding!
I just got one today from Nicole Farr which contained a YouTube link. This one is especially cool... if you click to watch on the actual site... there is also a much larger HD version of the video.
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Awesome video. But that music drives me INSANE. I can't take it. :X Were pretty much on the same page. I had know idea the process it took to make an atoll. 300,000,000 years seems like a looooooooong time for something to form. But when you see pic…
OK, so I get the feeling EVERYONE wants to visit one. So... why don't we just all go there?
Awesome video. I forgot all about that.
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Yep- that's another one we will examine in tonight's session.
North End peeps will always make the connection to the "Krug Park Lagoon"... which... is obviously a different sort of thing. ;)
The type of reef we will study in the Keys is a unique type... this will come up in tonight's session!
You just claimed Spongebob to be an educational tool? You have now climbed the ladder of awesomeness (in my mind) to an all-new level!
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