If you thought Frankenfish was ugly, you haven’t seen anything yet.  That’s because you haven’t seen the fish with the transparent head.  That ugly beast off to your right is called Macropinna microstoma, or the barreleye fish.  His head is completely transparent, and incredibly gross.  It looks like some kind of mutant, but this unfortunate fella’s weirdness is actually a crucial survival mechanism.

According to Discovery, the barreleye’s unusual head design allows it to use it’s tubular eye stalks to keep an eye on predators and prey no matter where it might be in relation to the freaky fish’s head.  It has a tiny mouth, but a huge digestive system, and the fish has been known to eat jellyfish.  If you’ve ever been stung by a jellyfish, then you know that barreleye are pretty good hunters to get away with that kind of dangerous prey.

The Monterey Bay Aquatic Research Institute has a full image gallery of the freaky critter that normally resides in deep water off California’s coast.  Believe me, animals don’t get much creepier than this thing.  Just eyeballing that guy for very long gives me the willies!

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Fashion designer Marc Ecko’s designs draw from a variety of inspirations, but there’s nothing as cool as his Black Rhino clothing articles.  After all, the Black Rhino collection is the home of the incredibly awesome Black Rhino Jason Hoodie, inspired by Jason Voorhees and the classic 80’s slasher movies in the Friday the 13th series.  […]

Throughout history, there’s been one constant.  People are going to do whatever they can to make themselves more beautiful.  Whether it’s a tattoo of an Internet superstar like Tay Zonday, a tooth tattoo, an eyeball coloration, or even an amputation disguise, there’s no shortage of ideas on what people can do to the body to […]

As lights get smaller and more powerful, you’re going to start seeing them in more and more places.  For example, check out the Galaxy Dress from CuteCircuit.  This formal-style gown made of crinoline, chiffon, 4,000 Swarovski crystals, and 24,000 LEDs is a pretty impressive combination of form and function.  Assuming you want to function as […]

Canada’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Remembrance Day.
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Twenty years ago today, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down.  The wall, separating East and West Berlin, was a symbol of the Cold War between the free world and the Soviet Union.  Google has a great selection of images from Life Magazine detailing the history of the wall, and there’s also a […]

From the outside, Emma Cahill looks like your average school girl.  She just turned 16 and attends St Mary’s Convent School in Worcester, England.  She is active in sports and has many friends, but there’s one thing different about Emma.  At 6′5, she is the tallest teenage girl in the UK.
Fortunately for Emma, her unusual […]

The New York Marathon ran this weekend.  Surprisingly, the winner was an American; in fact, Eritrea-born Meb Keflezighi is the first American citizen to win the marathon since 1982 (the year after I was born).  However, with an estimated 42,000 runners in the marathon this year, not all of them are hardcore professionals.  There are […]