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These armored sea bugs from a half-billion years ago had ‘disco ball’ eyes filled with tiny lenses – Live Science
Microscopy revealed the stunning compound structure in trilobite eyes.
Trilobites those ubiquitous, half-billion-year-old armored sea bugs had eyes that were faceted like disco balls. Now, new images reveal that these eyes were remarkably similar to those of bees and dragonflies.
Trilobites were buglike, many-legged marine arthropods that appeared during the Cambrian period
(543 million to 490 million years ago) and died out about 250 million years ago. Paleontologists have found many fossils of trilobites’ tough exoskeletons. And while trilobite eyes are somet…
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