Telescopefish
(Varies by Species)

Found in the deep tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide, the Telescopefish is named for its most immediately striking feature — large, forward-pointing tubular eyes with oversized lenses that look like a pair of telescopes mounted on its face.

It uses those eyes in a surprisingly clever way — swimming vertically in the water column with its head pointed upward, using its enormous eyes to detect the silhouettes of prey.

When prey ventures close enough, it can expand its jaw to seemingly impossible widths, swallowing prey larger than its own body whole — in one recorded case, scientists found prey twice the Telescopefish’s size folded inside its stomach!