Tiny Jurassic Arthropod Hunted Using Its Surprisingly Complex Eyes
Researchers studying the 160 - million - twelvemonth - old fossils of a maritime arthropod calledDollocaris ingensreveal how surprisingly sophisticated their huge eyes were . These piddling visual predator had more lenses on each eye than any extinct or survive arthropod except for New dragonflies , according to finding published inNature Communicationsthis workweek . Direct grounds of how ancient creature perceived their environment has been hard to come by because internal eye structures are almost never fossilize ....