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Over 500 Million Years Ago, Early Vertebrates Had Four Eyes That Could See 360 Degrees

Every mammal, every fish, every vertebrate (creatures that have a spine) has two eyes. It’s been that way for millions and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Earliest Known Vertebrates Had Four Eyes—and They Worked a Lot Like Ours Do, New Research Suggests

Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

Four-eyed Cambrian fish fossils hint at origins of vertebrate pineal complex

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

Mass extinction helped jawed vertebrates rise, study finds

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
insider.si.edu

Vertebrate coprolites / edited by Adrian P. Hunt, Jesper Milan, Spencer G. Lucas and Justin A. Spielmann

Dedication to William Buckland / Christopher J. Duffin -- Introduction. Vertebrate coprolite studies : status and prospectus / Adrian P. Hunt ... [et al.] -- History of study. The earliest published ...
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Greenland sharks, the longest-living vertebrates on the planet, swim for centuries. Rare photos reveal these deep-sea giants.

Greenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrate species on the planet. One study found that they could live nearly 400 years. These Arctic sharks can reach lengths of up to 24 feet and can weigh ...