Show i scientists discover new sea oddity having two hundred bright blue eyes drink to me only with thine eyes wrote old ben jonson in sodden sod den inspiration ue he was not thinking of the which has bright blue eyes arranged in double rows the Is the newest and discovery of science mose peculiar roughly it Is a sea porcupine belonging urchin family and lives to the sea I 1 in n the atlantic ocean the smithsonian s institution recently released some data on t this ills queer fish reports the san francisco chronicle the animal was found on the sea bottom south of 0 dry tortugas Tor and was wak sent to austin H clary smithsonian dr P P curator ot of by biologist the animal anid powers a carnegie has no ilea head d but resembles a stone atone pincushion with pins a foot and a half in length in the form of spines there are hundreds of the spines and 2100 of the bright blue eyes cyga lives on OD the ocean bottom comes out only at right night ejects poison from ills his spines lives on debris never attacks and has thousands of feet with which it clings to anything thin some of them have hoofs on the end of the bottom spines by which they are enabled to walk on the oceans bottom the myriad eyes appear to be true sight organs if any object Is brought near the cyga and moves to and fro the eyes follow the movement a condition not usually true in underwater animals |