A discovery reported in June 2011 of a 515-million-year-old fossil of a fearsome predator, an Early Cambrian Anomalocaris, with well-preserved compound eyes provided the much-needed opportunity to study the early evolution of the visual organs.
The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : An eye opener
The perfect hexagonal packing of the lenses seen in the most recently discovered fossil “pushes the origin of compound eyes further down” the arthropod evolutionary tree.
The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : An eye opener
The perfect hexagonal packing of the lenses seen in the most recently discovered fossil “pushes the origin of compound eyes further down” the arthropod evolutionary tree.
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