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Hey there 4 eyes

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Jan 23 at 10:30pmWeb
Show threadAyuTsukasaJan 23
Still kinda cute.
Show threadpartner_boat_slugJan 27
r/awwwwwww
Show threadRustyNovaJan 23
I’m on the fence whether it’s ai generated or not
Show threadtoynbeeJan 23
Pretty sure the photographer took the photo in situ.
Show threadTheTechnician27Jan 23

Here’s the relevant Nature article about specimens from the early vertebrate genera Haikouichthys and Myllokunmingia (and the corresponding Nature news article).

Full preprint published on ResearchGate. Credit for the image is persistently given to Xiangtong Lei and Sihang Zhang, the first two authors listed on the paper.

Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period - Nature

Early vertebrates, particularly myllokunmingids, possessed four camera-type eyes (a pair of lateral eyes and pineal and parapineal organs), which indicates that these structures functioned in image formation, in support of the hypothesis that the four camera-type eyes represent an ancestral vertebrate trait.

Nature
Show threadcaptain_oniJan 24
. * surprised vertebrate face *
Show threadkamenladyJan 24
They already look cute - then you look closely and they’re extra cute
Show threadIllogicalbitJan 24
Screens internally
Show threadRhaedasJan 24
They saw things. Terrible, horrible things.
Show threadTrooBlooJan 24

Ay ay ay ay ay!

Show thread21CabbageJan 24
Just try to fathom what they were seeing, what they were used to…
Show threadOvertheveloperJan 24
::)
Show threadelucubraJan 24

I don’t know why you are being downvoted.

The general populace is uneducated/dumb, that’s why safeguards are implemented.

I’m all for the idea of freedom, but making the exercise of that freedom informed.

I do onsite IT support, and much of my job is preventing and undoing user fuckups.

How many apps do you need to install per day? How many of those are sideloaded? I think that

If you look into fauna before each major extintion events, things get weirder and weirder, so weird that Hollywood would have a hard time selling a movie with that shit

Show threadMBechJan 24
Stroke or AI?
Show threadmuhybJan 24

I don’t know about them but

Show threadelucubraJan 26
Heh, neither. Voyager had saved text from an earlier unsent reply, and on the phone it was above the fold, so I didn’t see it.
Show threadLightcraterJan 24
I wonder how it feels about anglerfish
Show threadshneancyJan 24
::O
Show threadrobocallJan 24
More eyes = more better