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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0e0b512b-2ba1-4828-9b02-ff0d1985facb/131C84C7-425C-4951-9EEC-881EDD9B38EE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans"><H1>
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                                        Strange New Fish May See Like Humans                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/68BDEDCA-5563-4164-BFBE-51B1EF00C571" alt="story image" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/5CCD6361-167C-4E99-8FEA-DCDE942F2D95" alt="story image" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans"><P>
                        While diving in the harbor of a small island in <SPAN id="lw_1207184850_0" class="yshortcuts">Indonesia</SPAN> recently, husband and wife Buck and Fitrie Randolph, with dive guide Toby Fadirsyair, found a strange fish and took some pictures.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans"><P>The <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans/26948154/SIG=1hr07qn61/*http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=animals&c=&l=on&pic=080402-strange-fish-02.jpg&cap=The+leglike+pectoral+fin+for+walking+is+the+clue+that+this+newly+found+fish+is+an+anglerfish%2C+even+though+it+does+not+have+a+lure+on+its+head+for+attracting+prey.+Its+flat+face+and+forward-looking+eyes+are+just+two+of+a+host+of+reasons+why+University+of+Washington+professor+Ted+Pietsch+thinks+the+fish+found+in+January+probably+represents+a+new+family+of+vertebrate+animals.+Credit:+M.+Snyder%2C+starknakedfish.com%2Fdivingmaluku.com&title="><SPAN id="lw_1207184850_1" class="yshortcuts">oddball creature</SPAN></A> looks like an anglerfish, but different. Its eyes, unlike those of nearly all <SPAN id="lw_1207184850_2" class="yshortcuts">fish, point</SPAN> forward and may allow the fish to gauge depth the way humans do.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans"><P>The flat fish has tan- and peach-colored stripes and rippling folds of skin that obscure its fins. About the size of a human fist, it is soft and pliable enough to slip into narrow crevices of coral reefs - perhaps why it's never been seen before.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans"><P>The newly found fish has no lures so it burrows into a reef to find food.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans"><P>Anglerfishes are found the world over and typically have lures growing from their foreheads that they wave or wiggle to attract prey. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/strangenewfishmayseelikehumans">Most fishes have eyes on either side of their head so that each eye sees something different</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/131C84C7-425C-4951-9EEC-881EDD9B38EE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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