surftherenow.com » Sealife http://surftherenow.com All Things Surf. Travel, Destinations, Video, Photos. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:33:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Giant Stingray and Fish With Transparent Head http://surftherenow.com/2009/03/02/giant-stingray-and-fish-with-transparent-head/ http://surftherenow.com/2009/03/02/giant-stingray-and-fish-with-transparent-head/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:19:37 +0000 Evan http://surftherenow.com/?p=494 No, not surf news. But two cool stories from National Geographic last week. A man caught the largest freshwater fish in the world, a freshwater stingray in the Mekong River in Thailand. The stingray weighed between 550 and 990 lbs (250 to 450 kilograms). The stingray’s body measured 6.6 feet (2 meters) wide by 6.9 feet (2.1) meters long. The tail was missing. If it had been there, the ray’s total length would have been between 14.8 and 16.4 feet (4.5 and 5 meters).

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The Largest Freshwater Fish

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) photographed for the first time a surreal fish with a transparent head. With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes–topped by green, orblike lenses–in a picture released today but taken in 2004. The fish is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact. The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939–but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.

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The Barreleye Fish Photographed Off the Coast of California

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