{"id":962,"date":"2015-07-24T18:47:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T18:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?p=962"},"modified":"2016-01-04T18:24:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:24:22","slug":"weird-but-true-its-a-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Weird but true&#8230;it&#8217;s a fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ANIMAL-5-Ipnops-an-unusual-fish-Creep-into-the-Deep-640-x-469.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-964 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ANIMAL-5-Ipnops-an-unusual-fish-Creep-into-the-Deep-640-x-469-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"ANIMAL #5 Ipnops an unusual fish Creep into the Deep 640 x 469\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ANIMAL-5-Ipnops-an-unusual-fish-Creep-into-the-Deep-640-x-469-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ANIMAL-5-Ipnops-an-unusual-fish-Creep-into-the-Deep-640-x-469.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hi Virtual Science Team,<br \/>\nOur Global Explorer ROV happened upon this very unusual fish called Ipnops. Those two bright yellow patches on the top of its head are its eyes.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have lenses, because those cut out too much light.\u00a0 Basically, the eyes are naked retinas, with a layer of reflecting pigment below them, which is what gives it them that yellowish glow when you shine a light on it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Tammy<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nDr. Tamara Frank<br \/>\nChief Scientist and Deep-Sea Explorer<br \/>\nCreep into the Deep Mission:<br \/>\nBioluminescence and Vision on the Deep Seafloor 2015 Expedition, NOAA-OER<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Virtual Science Team, Our Global Explorer ROV happened upon this very unusual fish called Ipnops. Those two bright yellow patches on the top of its head are its eyes.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t have lenses, because those cut out too much light.\u00a0 Basically, the eyes are naked retinas, with a layer of reflecting pigment below them, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?p=962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,34,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creep-into-the-deep","category-postcards-from-the-deep","category-seamails","category-virtual-research-missions","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}