Look at this – isn’t it weird? (And just where do you think its eyes are???)
Go and read all about it (& see if you’re right on where the eyes are) over on Pharyngula. It’s wonderful stuff.
(As usual PZ gets the fun stuff first – & besides, I did say I was insanely busy!)
Grant says:
Anyone using this as a model organism to study brain function by direct (i.e. optical) observation, or are zebrafish or something else more practical?
Alison Campbell says:
I know nozzink!
But having said that – the logistics of working with a deep-sea organism would probably present major problems; zebra fish are probably more practical all round 🙂
benjamin says:
all i have to say about this fish is WOW! when i first found out were its eyes realy were, it just bloow my mine. but how the people who are telling us were the eyes are discovered the information is what i would love to know.
Alison Campbell says:
It’s wonderful, isn’t it? I imagine what happened is, that someone’s got their hands on one of these fish (probably from a deep-sea trawl), & thought ‘what a weird fish that is!’ If they were anything like me they’d have dissected their specimen to see what things were like inside. (I do rather enjoy dissections – if you’re learning anatomy then they are essential to discover how an organism’s put together. “Virtual” dissections aren’t the same as you don’t get that feel – literally – for how the body’s structured.)
And then they’d have written a paper about it all 🙂
Suleiman says:
The important question here is: Does it taste good?