This is just for fun. For anyone who hasn’t played before, the only rule is: No researching. Just post your best (or worst) guess in the comments. Reading other people’s answers before posting your own is optional. Answer will be posted in the comments tomorrow morning.
WHAT?! Now you are just making things up.
heh, when I first saw the photo, I too wondered if it was a hoax so I checked with Google before posting. Apparently an actual animal.
OMG!!! That is the weirdest fish I have ever seen!
Globe Fish?
That would be a good name for this fish!
WOW.. no clue, no guess, That is so strange and beautiful
I read about this fish a couple weeks ago, but don’t remember the name. It is incredible to be able to see right into his/her head.
It’s a deep-sea fish nicknamed the ‘barreleye,’ which I mainly remember because I think it ought to be ‘bubblehead’ and then am reminded it isn’t – it was named for specimens whose heads had collapsed after death, after they’d been dragged up to the shallows. Its eyes are the round green things on thick stalks inside the bubble, so it sees through its head even as we look into it. Very, very weird. I think the benthic seas are a lot like Wonderland, myself, full of strange creatures and seemingly impossible things like seas under the sea.
I looked at the picture and thought, “Dreamfish.”
glass fish?
It would be unfair for me to answer, as a friend sent me a video of this fish recently. But it IS cool. Nature is wondrous.
I saw this on Nat Geo a while back. I think it’s called a “barreleye” ..I think. if I remember correctly. Why, I have no idea.. I would have called it a “see thru head” but now, lol! I really think it’s called a barreleye. What the real name if it is, I have no idea. I’m just lucky to remember this much! and just hope it’s right!
What a cool looking fish!
ANSWER TIME
This is a barreleye (aka spook fish) and yes – those two googly green orbs inside the transparent head are eyeballs, scanning the water above for stuff to eat. Wikipedia explains: