#Fossilised 429-mln-year-old eye mirrors modern insect vision
“#Fossilised 429-mln-year-old eye mirrors modern insect vision” The trilobite Aulacopleura kionickii (Barrande, 1846), size: c 1cm. Credit: Brigitte Schoenemann. An exquisitely well preserved 429-million-year-old eye from a marine creature that went extinct before dinosaurs even existed had vision comparable to modern-day bees and dragonflies, researchers said Thursday. Fossilized trilobites, formidable-looking arthropods with segmented bodies and…