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In this close-up by the Mie Prefecture Fisheries Research Institute we see the larva of a Conger eel.
Leptocephali (singular leptocephalus) all have laterally compressed bodies that contain transparent jelly-like substances on the inside of the body and a thin layer of muscle with visible myomeres on the outside. Their body organs are small and they possess only a simple tube for a gut. This combination of features results in them being very transparent when they are alive. They also lack red blood cells until they begin to metamorphose into the juvenile glass eel stage when they start to look like eels. [Source: Wikipedia]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/b90494b90934db40e73788fad71bb7d1/tumblr_mg14qhR6df1qb38ylo1_500.jpg)
In this close-up by the Mie Prefecture Fisheries Research Institute we see the larva of a Conger eel.
Leptocephali (singular leptocephalus) all have laterally compressed bodies that contain transparent jelly-like substances on the inside of the body and a thin layer of muscle with visible myomeres on the outside. Their body organs are small and they possess only a simple tube for a gut. This combination of features results in them being very transparent when they are alive. They also lack red blood cells until they begin to metamorphose into the juvenile glass eel stage when they start to look like eels. [Source: Wikipedia]
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Green Ray
Tacita Dean
Fire
Yosemite
Two white dogs
Swampmoss
Sprouting
Photographer posing with two others; 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
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