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 beaten path. One of the most beautiful and strange examples of this is ...

Video footage of a deep sea fish with a translucent head was recorded during a recent dive off the coast of California. The dive was organized by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the ...

The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) has extremely light-sensitive eyes that can rotate within a transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head. The fish’s tubular eyes are capped by bright green ...

A rare image of Macropinna, a deep-sea fish with binocular protrusions like a telescope, has been released by a research team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in the United ...

This is the astonishing moment a bizarre-looking fish that has only been seen nine times was caught on camera in the deep. Scientists captured images of the unusual fish with a bulbous, translucent ...

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 their ...

Marine biologists recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. This fish's unusual eyes can rotate within a transparent shield that covers the ...

The "barreleye" fish gives a new meaning to "clear-headed" -- members of the central California species Macropinna microstoma have fully transparent skulls filled with a jelly-like fluid that ...