While it's very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, "life finds a way," that way can sometimes veer quite far off ...

The fishy denizens of the deep are many, varied and strange, and among the strangest are the barreleyes, swift little hunters with tunnel-shaped eyes that live in the darkness of the deepest ...

A bizarre deep-water fish called the barreleye has a transparent head and tubular eyes. Since the fish's discovery in 1939, biologists have known the eyes were very good at collecting light. But ...

In 2021, scientists captured footage of one of these rarely seen, deep-sea weirdos in the Monterey Canyon, off the coast of California. They speculated that barreleye fish help themselves to a ...

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The barreleye fish, Macropinna microstoma, was filmed in the twilight zone, between 2,000 and 2,600 feet beneath the ocean surface. The 54-second video shows the unusual fish, with a translucent ...

BEAUTIFUL BARRELEYE: The wee wonder is described by the Cannery Row institution as "incredibly elusive," a fish that " lives in the ocean's twilight zone, at depths of 2,000 to 2,600 feet." ...

The barreleye has been a fish of fascination for MBARI researchers for some time. Originally, scientists thought the fish's tubular eyes could only see upward above the fish's head, ...

The Barreleye fish is a fascinating creature that lives in the ocean's twilight zone, between 2,000 to 2,600 feet - and its upward-pointing eyes can rotate when needed ...

A 55-second video captured between 2,000 and 2,600 feet beneath the ocean surface contains closeups of the rarely seen barreleye fish’s translucent head and tail and glowing green eyes.