Researchers studying the 160-million-year-old fossils of a marine arthropod called Dollocaris ingens reveal how surprisingly sophisticated their huge eyes were. These little visual predators had more ...

CONSIDERABLE progress has been made of late towards the elucidation of the structure of the arthropod eye. Prof. G. H. Parker, of Harvard, was the first seriously to attack the more intricate problems ...

Arthropod eyes have some optical characteristics that mammalian eyes cannot match. Built from curved arrays of individual imaging elements called ommatidia, rather than around a single lens and retina ...

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing a 160 million year old compound eye of a fossil crustacean found in southeastern France visible. With the reconstruction of the eye, the scientists ...