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Spookfish Uses Mirrors For Eyes

Posted by timothy on from the still-working-on-the-trenchcoat dept.

Kligat writes "The brownsnout spookfish in the Pacific is the first known vertebrate to use mirrors to focus light into its eyes. Despite being a species known for 120 years, this was not known until a live specimen was caught between New Zealand and Samoa last year. The fish lives over 1,000 meters below the ocean's surface, so the light focused by the mirrors' perfectly curved surfaces provides a major advantage over other fish."

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  1. That's Spooky! by Arancaytar · · Score: 1, Funny

    (Sorry.)

    1. Re:That's Spooky! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      According to the article, "The mirror uses tiny plates, probably of guanine crystals, arranged into a multi-layer stack."

      I know the British spell things differently than us, but there wasn't an 'a' in 'genuine' last time I checked.

  2. More importantly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How does it taste?

    1. Re:More importantly by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 3, Funny

      Probably...

      like chicken.

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      "Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
    2. Re:More importantly by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

      No! No chickens in the sea! Chickens on the land, fishes in the sea! /Seinfeld

  3. Site is down by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any Spookfish got a mirror?

    1. Re:Site is down by BobSixtyFour · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's down because it's having a BROWNsnOUT.

  4. Dopefish by mfh · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Dopefish uses complex pot-philosophy for inner-vision.

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    The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
  5. Re:Lenses? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I agree. What an intelligent design.

  6. Of course... by SirLurksAlot · · Score: 4, Funny

    This evolutionary development is in response to the Spookfish's natural enemy, the Medusa!

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    God, schmod. I want my monkey man!
  7. In other news Texas Instruments sues Nature by erroneus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Texas Instruments, the holder of several patents related to DLP technolgy has filed suit in a Texas court with a complaint related to the use of their tiny mirror imaging technology.

  8. I hear Case is looking for a new girlfriend. by Papatoast · · Score: 2, Funny

    //first thing I think of when I hear mirror eyes/shades

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    We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. - HST
  9. Objects In Eye Are Closer Than They Appear by jbezorg · · Score: 4, Funny

    There, now it's been done.

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    I've lost all my marbles except one & It's fun to test angular & centripetal acceleration in my skull
  10. How does it taste? by Petersko · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I eat two pieces in a single bite it gives me a headache. I feel like I taste it over and over and over and over...