Posts Tagged ‘fish’

Amazing deep-sea fish with tubular eyes and transparent head

Posted by: Avi in New Discoveries, Videos on May 24th, 2009

At Evolvems we are always looking for the strangest of the strange creatures on Earth.  The types of adaptations that natural selection has produced are remarkable.  The barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) is possibly one of the weirdest we have run across.

This fish has super sensitive tubular eyes that are embedded inside a clear fluid filled shell that resembles a jet fighter’s cockpit cover.  The barreleye lives deep in the ocean and points it’s eyes upward looking for small fish and jellyfish passing above.  When prey is spotted, the barreleye is able to swivel it eyes forward to track food, helping guide food towards its small mouth.

Read more about the barreleye and the Monterey Bay Aquarium researchers who are studying it here.

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Giant Stingrays Found Near Thai City

Posted by: Avi in New Discoveries, Videos on March 12th, 2009

Zeb Hogan, of the University of Nevada in Reno, is documenting the rays as part of the Megafishes Project, an effort to document Earth’s 20 or so freshwater giants.  watch as he searches for a Giant Stingray in Thailand and gets more than he could even imagine.

Go to the full National Geographic story…

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    Microbe Finds Arsenic Tasty; Redefines Life


    New Microbe Samples

    NASA scientists have discovered an amazing new life-form that redefines what we consider to be the basic building blocks of life.

    A microbe found at the bottom of Mono Lake in California seems able to live in a solution of arsenic which is poisonous to most other life.  Phosphorus, which used to be considered one of the essential building blocks of life, is replaced by arsenic in this organism.

    Dr. Sasselov, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and director of an institute on the origins of life there said, “I would like to know, when designing experiments and instruments to look for life [on other planets], whether I should be looking for same stuff as here on Earth, or whether there are other options.  Are we going to look for same molecules we love and know here, or broaden our search?”

    Seems like we have aliens right here on earth!!!

    Original NYTimes article…
    Dec 10