"Ancient animals saw the world through multi-faceted compound
eyes, a new fossil discovery reveals. The ancient eyes, which date back
half a billion years, probably belonged to a predator, likely a giant
shrimplike creature," according to a story posted on MSNBC. "Like a modern fly, the ancient creature relied on compound eyes
consisting of thousands of separate lenses to see the world. Each lens
provides a pixel of vision. The more lenses, the better the creature
could see. The mysterious ancient shrimp saw better than any other animal yet discovered from its era: Its eyes contained 3,000 lenses." Read more.
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