Fisherman Catches Largest Rare Creature Off Russia

The Bug-Eyed Fish

Its huge buggy eyes may be due to the extreme darkness at the bottom of the ocean. Deep sea fish, like all creatures, must adapt to their environment, so many of them develop massive – and extremely sensitive – eyes that are 100 times more powerful than human eyes. Other fish who don’t develop these are completely blind and rely on their sense of pressure and smell to get around.

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Kimberly Atwood’s books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. Kimberly lives in the Rocky Mountains with her husband, an exceptionally perfect dog, and an attack cat. Before she started writing historical research, Kimberly got a graduate degree in theoretical physical chemistry from Ohio State University. After that, just to shake things up, she went to law school at the University of London and graduated summa cum laude. Then she did a handful of clerkships with some really important people who are way too dignified to be named here. She was a law professor for a while. She now writes full-time.

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