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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 ...
Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.
Every mammal, every fish, every vertebrate (creatures that have a spine) has two eyes. It’s been that way for millions and ...
New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered that vertebrates make higher numbers of different forms of ...
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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 ...
New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
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