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Eyes of a diminutive predator

Adam Khor · 2011-11-08 19:22:17

Predatory crustacean already had relatively advanced visual mechanism over 500 million years ago: http://www.livescience.com/16829-early-eye-evolution-crustacean.html

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Adam Khor

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Predatory crustacean already had relatively advanced visual mechanism over 500 million years ago:
http://www.livescience.com/16829-early-eye-evolution-crustacean.html

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unda da sea!

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Henningsmoenicaris scutula, quite the mouthful.
Are these the first ever eyes to show up in the fossil record?

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#3 20-11-2011 07:39PM

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Galvasean wrote: »

Henningsmoenicaris scutula, quite the mouthful.
Are these the first ever eyes to show up in the fossil record?

I doubt it, but to be honest I have no idea :S I really don´t know much about pre-dinosaur creatures

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