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References:<\/strong><\/p>\nB. H. Robison and K. R. Reisenbichler. Macropinna microstoma and the paradox of its tubular eyes. Copeia<\/em>. 2008, No. 4, December 18, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All right folks, I have an exciting line up of Wild Facts for you this week. Each day this week will be a fact about bizarre and interesting animals on this planet.\u00a0 You may have heard of some of these animals but they are not common.\u00a0 So make sure you check out Wild Facts each day this week to get the scoop on some very unusual animals. I wanted to start the week off strong so I am going to give you the down low on an animal that has a transparent head.\u00a0 I told you this was going to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,4024],"tags":[348,226,279,4116,280,4025,4027],"yoast_head":"\n
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