Fossil shrimp with five eyes could be elusive ‘transitional species’ – Haaretz

We’re so egotistical about our morphology that we even portray alien beings from distant galaxies as looking like us, but green. Two eyes, two ears, a proboscis, etcetera. So first of all we apparently have a vestigial third eye in our brains and secondly, the world keeps showing us alternatives. On Wednesday, scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences disproved our conservatism yet again with a report on a strange sort-of-shrimplike ancestral creature that lived around half a billion years ago…

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