Top News, Photos: Fish With Transparent Head Found, Giant Stingray, More

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Friday, February 27, 2009 Sign Up for Newsletters New This Week • FIRST PHOTOS Weird Fish With Transparent Head • Rare Cheetahs "Trapped" by Cameras • Monster Stingray Caught— Biggest Freshwater Fish? • Ancient Shipwreck's Stone Cargo Linked to Apollo Temple Week in Photos Pancake flippers, tornado survivors, a rare tiger cub, and premature St. Patrick's Day partiers make the scene in this week's best news pictures. See the Photos See Latest News » More News Photos » Top Stories of the Week FIRST PHOTOS: Weird Fish With Transparent Head With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its transparent head and barrel-like eyes in the first specimen ever found alive. With video.   Alaska Coasts Melting—And Not Just the Ice Part of Alaska's coast is drifting into the sea at twice the rate it has in the past, reshaping the Arctic shoreline, a new study says.   Monster Stingray Caught—Biggest Freshwater Fish? A giant stingray—weighing more than 550 pounds—gives scientists hope that this once endangered megafish is making a comeback.   See Latest News »   Latest Photo News                   PHOTOS: ''Torture'' Phalluses Give Beetles Breeding Boost   LIGHT PILLAR PICTURES: Mysterious Sky Shows Explained     More Photos »   Latest Video News                   VIDEO: Mastiffs Enlisted to Save Cows   VIDEO: Fish With Transparent Head Filmed     More Videos »   Most Viewed News of the Week   1. FIRST PHOTOS: Weird Fish With Transparent Head 2. Sky Show Tonight: Green "Two-Tailed" Comet Arrives 3. "Extinct" Bird Seen, Eaten 4. Liquid Water Recently Seen on Mars? 5. LIGHT PILLAR PICTURES: Mysterious Sky Shows Explained   More Most Viewed »       Photo of the Day See Photo If you received this email from a friend and would like to subscribe to this or other National Geographic emails, click here. Unsubscribe | Change Email Address | Update Email Preferences | Privacy Policy | Mission Statement Click the unsubscribe link above to be removed from our email program, or send your request to… National Geographic; Attn: E-newsletter Program; 1145 17th Street NW; Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2009 National Geographic Society. All Rights Reserved. To ensure that you receive your National Geographic emails, please add ngs@newsletters.nationalgeographic.com to your address book now.