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Scientists find 'oldest eye fossil' aged half billion years
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Friday, 8 December, 2017
The study of a 530-million-year-old fossil found in Estonia has revealed the oldest fossilised eye ever discovered, Europe-based researchers suggested. They found the extinct creature had a primitive form of compound eye, comprising arrays of tiny visual cells like in present-day bees. However, the eye did not have a lens, likely because the trilobite species lacked features for its formation.
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