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The earliest known vertebrates had four eyes—and they worked a lot like ours do, new research suggests
Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...
Every mammal, every fish, every vertebrate (creatures that have a spine) has two eyes. It’s been that way for millions and ...
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Among the earliest known vertebrates some had 4 eyes, and it’s amazing what they’ve become
The preservation of fossils of some of the oldest known vertebrates is so impressive that palaeontologists can not only count their eyes, but determine how they worked. The findings demonstrate that ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study analyzing human-driven extinction threats to jawed vertebrates warns that we could lose between 86 billion and 160 billion years’ worth ...
Dedication to William Buckland / Christopher J. Duffin -- Introduction. Vertebrate coprolite studies : status and prospectus / Adrian P. Hunt ... [et al.] -- History of study. The earliest published ...
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