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Daily fish fact #278

Barreleyes!

They have barrel-shaped tubular eyes, which are enclosed inside their head under a layer of transparent soft tissue! They use their peculiar eyes to look for prey that might be floating directly above them; they live deep underwater just at the edge of where light penetration ends, but thanks to their eyes with a large number of rods (a type of photoreceptor) they can see very well into the waters above.

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Photos by Meg Mindlin

in my graduate school marine lab era

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Daily fish fact #276

Goblin shark!

This deep sea shark is able to rapidly extend its jaws, quickly engulfing prey!

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