Tag: eyes
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All the better to better eat you with: Dinosaurs evolved different eye socket shapes to allow stronger bites
Phys.org has a story about the strength of a T-rex bite. A new study, published in the journal Communications Biology, looked at the shape of eye sockets to determine how it affected bite force. The skulls of about 500 different dinosaurs were analyzed and the researchers found that a circular eye socket was prone to…
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Trilobite Tuesday #38: Inspired by prehistoric creatures, researchers make record-setting lenses
Phys.org has a story about technology derived from fossils. Some researchers at NIST have took inspiration in the eyes of the trilobite Dalmanitina socialis to make special bifocal lenses for a miniature camera. Their work can be found in a recent paper published in the journal Nature Communications. Five hundred million years ago, the oceans…
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Trilobite Tuesday #19: A 429-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Had Eyes like Those of Modern Bees
Scientific American has a story about trilobite eyes. In a 429 million year old fossil trilobite fossil, scientists from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland got a glimpse at how the world looked to these ancient animals. A remarkably preserved specimen of Aulacopleura koninckii showed that these animals had eyes that were about as good…
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ScienceMag: 300-million-year-old ‘Tully Monster’ may not be the creature scientists thought it was
Science Magazine has a story about the Tully Monster. A paper, which appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, calls into question whether Tullymonstrum is a vertebrate. The new research found melanosomes in extant invertebrate eyes (Octopus and Squid). That was a key part of the previous argument as it was widely believed…
