Watch this cool transparent deep sea creature whose eyes take up its whole head

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7-inch transparent crustacean, eh?
What color when cooked?

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I sometimes wonder what effect photographing these creatures with what even to us surface-dwellers is bright illumination has on these creatures with their abyssal-adapted sensitive visual systems. Are they paralysed with pain after the flash, or perhaps permanently blinded?

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Thanks Andrea for providing waking nightmares.

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Was expecting this:

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“The bad news is, he’s blind.”

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