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With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes�topped by green, orblike structures�in a picture released today but taken in 2004.

The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.

The 6-inch (15-centimeter) barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) had been known since 1939�but only from mangled specimens dragged to the surface by nets.

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Herrings converse via flatulence, researchers find

Herrings appear to be sociable fish who like to communicate among themselves and use their natural flatulence to do so, a team of British and Canadian researchers has reported.

"At night herring squeeze bubbles out of their swim bladders through an anal pore, producing sounds not unlike people blowing raspberries," the team of three recounted. The Pacific species (Clupea pallasii) were found to emit distinctive bursts of pulses, known as "fast repetitive tick", or FRT sounds, mostly at night. It was the same story with Clupea pallasii's Atlantic cousin, Clupea harengus.

"Atlantic herring also produce FRT, or �Fart� sounds and video analysis showed an association with bubble expulsion from the anal duct region," the researchers found. "The functions of these sounds are unknown but as the per capita rates of sound production by fish at higher densities were greater, social mediation appears likely. "These sounds may have consequences for our understanding of herring behaviour and the effects of noise pollution."

� noise pollution?