Its eye crawled across its face | Tonguefish

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]This creature's eye crawled across its face. The other eye is still there, watching from underneath. It was born symmetrical, one eye on each side. As it grew, the left eye began to move millimeter by millimeter until both sat on the same side of its skull.

[00:00:21]The skull twisted to let it through.

[00:00:23]Then, it sank.

[00:00:26]It now lives hundreds of meters down on an active underwater volcano, resting on a crust of molten sulfur, 187° beneath its body.

[00:00:38]Above it, fish drift down from the surface, stunned by the toxic water.

[00:00:44]The tonguefish strikes them as they fall.

[00:00:48]200 of them carpet every square meter of the seafloor.

[00:00:53]Nobody knows how they're alive.