Just your average fish with an alien see-through head

Cool new pic of a deep-sea fish. It looks alien or computer generated, but it's real.

Its head is a transparent shell, and even crazier, the fish's eyes move around within this shell. The eyes are the larger green blobs in the upper part of the head (the eye-looking black areas above the mouth are actually the nostrils). This floating eye / see-through head works for this deep sea fish b/c it lives in almost complete darkness. Its eyes are tubular allowing it to see the tiniest amounts of light, but also giving it almost no field of vision. Of course, if you can just move your eyes around within your head, field of vision becomes a little less critical. Cool. Freaky.

For all the moms who used to say they had eyes in the back of their head, like my mom said, I think it would be cool if they woke up one morning and had this type of skull. That'd make for an interesting breakfast conversation.

It's pretty fascinating how much, how fast, we are learning about the deep sea - yet we still know more about the moon than we do about the deepest areas of the earth's surface. Space, however, is still that greatest prize. That is why the article, wonderfully entitled Galaxy may be full of 'Earths,' alien life, greatly intrigues me. We at tinybluemarble are alien life groupies. More thoughts on this article later....