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Flashlight fish have glowing lanterns below their eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FQQ5gq5wi0

Flashlight fish, also called lanterneye fish and scientifically photoblepharon (light-eye), are strange and wondrous creatures best viewed during a night dive in the Pacific.

Here’s what they look like in daylight. The white sac below their eyes contains bioluminescent bacteria.

Here is a detailed video in Japanese:

These beauties were filmed off the Solomon Islands:

Lantern eye fish living in the deep sea (YouTube / Michiko Hiratsuka)

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