🪱🌊 New #research indicates that our eyes developed from a midline light-sensing organ in a primitive sea creature.

While our ancestors lost their original paired eyes while living as stationary filter feeders, the need for movement eventually triggered the #evolution of the complex retinas we use today. This process also led to the formation of the pineal gland, which regulates sleep cycles in modern #vertebrates.

👉 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brain-eyesight-animals-worm-oceans-b2951015.html

#science #biology #nature #marinebiology #history #genetics #zoology #neuroscience #education

🧬👁️ In an evolutionary plot twist, new #research shows that #humans and other #vertebrates share an ancestor that actually lost its paired eyes before evolving them all over again.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-02-oneeyed-creature-gave-modern-eyes.html

#evolution #biology #science #eyes #history #nature #genetics #discovery

Football-sized #fossil creature may have been one of the first land #animals to eat its veggies https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1115870

#Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02929-8

"for tens of millions of years, these early land-dwelling creatures only ate their fellow animals... In a new paper, scientists describe the 307-million-year-old fossil of one of the earliest known land #vertebrates that evolved the ability to eat #plants."