Watch that Fish with a Wandering Eye

Check out this video from Science News that shows the changes a flatfish goes through as it develops into an adult fish.  One eye socket  actually grows toward the other as the skull twists, leaving the fish with both eyes on one side of its head! (Video courtesy of Alex Schreiber, the Carnegie Institute of Washington and St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.)

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