Brainless, faceless fish found off Scotland
A marine survey around islands off Scotland has found a fish-like creature without a face or a brain, researchers said.
The creature and others were recorded during a government-backed survey of the waters around Scotland’s coast, using underwater video and acoustic and 3-D images, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
The survey recorded the prehistoric ‘faceless and brainless’ amphioxus off Orkney, scientists said. The rarely seen species is considered a modern example of the first animals that evolved a backbone, with a primitive nerve cord down its back and no clearly defined face or brain.