Found fish have strange eyes

This creature has eyes that are quite different from most fish species, they all look forward (not on the sides of the head as usual) and can allow the animal to feel the same depth as humans.

While swimming in the port of a small Indonesian island recently, the couple Buck and Fitrie Randolph, along with a diving instructor, found this strange fish and took some pictures of it.

The animal has peach colored stripes and light brown, the corrugated folds of the skin cover the fins. It's only about the size of a fist, but the body is soft and can twist itself to squeeze through the narrow slits of the coral reef, which has never been seen before.

Initially Professor Ted Pietsch, from the University of Washington, said it was an anglerfish - a fish familiar with eccentric anger and loneliness in the deep sea without light. The reason is that they also use pectoral fins instead of feet to walk on the seabed, like anglerfish. However, anglerfish are present all over the world, and there are typical characteristics of bait lures that grow in the forehead.

Newly found fish have no such tassels, and they must stay in the reef to find their prey. In addition, the flat face and forward-looking eyes are the two main reasons why Pietsch thinks this animal belongs to a whole new family of vertebrates with science.

Does this fish represent a new family or does it have to wait for DNA testing and scrutiny of the specimen. However Pietsch said that in addition to 18 different anglerfish families, this could be the 19th family. They are large groups of animals, for example, all dogs belong to a larger family, including dogs. wolf, grass coyotes and hyenas.

Newly found fish have eyes that lie on a flat surface, and look forward together, while other fish have each eye on one side of the head, helping them see two different objects.(Photo: LiveScience)