Copyright Barbara Samuelson 1997

This is the head of a Pacific Halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) tossed onto the rocks in Sitka, Alaska. The halibut can get up to 8 feet in length, 500 lbs in weight, and live up to 55 years. Notice how both eyes have migrated over to the same side of it's head--it is from the flounder family, a flatfish.

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