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Our adorable, noodle-like ancestor had 4 eyes, half-a-billion-year-old fossils reveal
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Our adorable, noodle-like ancestor had 4 eyes, half-a-billion-year-old fossils reveal
The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean, according to half-a-billion-year-old fossils from China that shed light on our evolutionary origins.
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A study reveals that the oldest vertebrates, more than 518 million years old, had four eyes, questioning the evolution of vision. The fossils, discovered in China, reveal a complex visual system with two large lateral eyes and two smaller central eyes.
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